christmas 2010...

christmas 2010: it was another successful christmas at the withers household. santa came right on time and left the girls way too many presents (as well as mom and dad, grandma and grandpa, grandma nancy, sederholm family, aunties...and all the other wonderful relatives that bought us gifts!).

Here are pictures from Christmas Day 2010. livia with her presents
sophia with her presents

she got the pillow pet she wanted!

cue sophia's enthusiasm!

too much fun!!

sophia wearing her new pajamas from santa, holding her blue horse she asked santa for and candy from her stocking

remember fashion plates???

candy and barbies go hand in hand at 7 o'clock in the morning

family photo after church at the woods'

"we're so excited to open our gifts!"

family gift....livia REALLY wanted a wii

sophia listening to the movie on grandpa's headphones...can you hear me now?

odds and week-ends...

odds and week-ends: we celebrated the windschitl family vacation on saturday in hutchinson. We played "Minute to Win It" games, did a "P" letter gift exchange, ate, drank, and were merry. Here are some pics...cousin nate is trying to get a oreo cookie from his forehead to his mouth without using his hands...check out sophia's face!

second cousins: greta (4), livia (5), and sophia (2)...

notice how greta and livia dressed up, but sophia loved her christmas dress so much that all she wanted was a necklace! too funny!

odds and week-ends...

odds and week-ends: between all the snowstorms we have been getting, we had a birthday party for "auntie jenny" and "uncle jim" last sunday. We also had a visit from Santa on Friday evening before bedtime.

You can imagine how the girls must have been! that face on livia is actually one of surprise ("i cannot believe this!")
sophia, livia, grandma nancy, and auntie jenny playing elefun

sophia, livia, and grandma nancy

waiting for our guests, so she decided to read

(oh, it makes this teacher and mommy so proud!)

we set out the christmas dishes for our guests...i loved how they looked!

growing up too fast...

growing up too fast: sophia hit a milestone on wednesday. Our deal with her was when she went #2 on the potty, she would get her "princess bed". Well, it happened at daycare on Wednesday, so daddy and Sophia picked up the bed from grandpa and grandma's house (where they were storing it for us) that evening. We are all excited (and a little sad) for this milestone. Our little baby is growing up... ready for bed on wednesday evening...she has slept great each evening!

so proud!

livia and sophia in liv's room...

livia wanted to share with you her snowflakes we made

weekend fun...

weekend fun: we had a nice and relaxing weekend. We completed quite a few projects and had a few adventures on Saturday.

Here are a few pics from the past week and weekend... the first of december marks the beginning of the cherished advent boxes....

er, or is it advent packages??
we had to make a snow blob, since the snow was too fluffy...

sledding down rockethill

we made rudolph cookies

fun with family and friends...

fun with family and friends: last weekend we met up with our friends (the girls' godparents), paul and laurie, and our godson, owen at the mall of america. We decided to visit "Underwater Adventures" and "Nickelodeon Universe". It was a great day with them, and we are so blessed to have them in our lives! laurie, paul, owen, and the girls

(as you can see, sophia is going through a "blinking" stage when the flash goes off)
we do not take ownership for the little boy in the background ;)

owen and sophia holding hands on "azul the train" at nickelodeon universe...

i think he likes her!

i think owen is thinking, "wow! that's some bow!"

what do you think sophia is thinking???

underwater adventures

livia wanted a picture next to the LARGE fish!

they wanted a picture next to the turtle
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on friday, we took the girls to see santa at the mall in their christmas outfits. We were able to get some pictures for our christmas card.

Here are a few I took when we got home...

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on thanksgiving, the withers and woods family hopped in the expedition and headed to elk river. We had a fabulous supper with the Withers and Sederholm family! As always, the girls had a fantastic time with Kaytlin and Elana (Sorry, Terry and Sharon!).

the brunettes and first born

the blondies (except me, of course) and second born

the girls did a "thankful plate" for a thanksgiving craft this year...

the girls did a GREAT job!

a tree-mendous adventure...

a tree-mendous adventure: on friday morning we all hopped into the expedition and headed to turck's trees in litchfield. Every year it has been tradition in our family (on the day after Thanksgiving) to cut down our favorite tree at Turck's Trees for Christmas. It was a COLD day, but the girls were great! I jokingly said that this year will be the fastest year that we find our Christmas tree, since it is was so cold. Here are some pictures from our tree-mendous tree cutting adventure... on our way to litchfield

sophia, me, and livia

livia, bobby, and sophia (the family decided on a long needled tree this year)

sophia wasn't too interested in finding "the" tree...

when i turned around she was playing in the snow and making snow angels

the highlight of the trip were the kittens

(can you tell by the expression on their faces?)

bobby cutting the tree with his helpers

(this was actually our third tree that we selected, since the first tree had 2 trunks and the second tree had a crooked trunk...the third time was the charm!)