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Camryn Turns TWO!

Today Bailey and I went to Camryn's house to celebrate her second birthday! Last night Gregory came down with a cold so he and Daddy stayed home so he wouldn't spread any germs to baby Luke. We had a yummy lunch, cake and ice cream and watched Camryn open her birthday presents. It was a fun afternoon, but we sure wish our whole family could've come!

Aunty Kristin with Bailey and Camryn

Grandma and Luke

Aunty Joey and Luke

Check out this cake!

Almost as big as Camryn!

Blow!

Bailey and Emma opening their party favor while Camryn is opening her gifts

Grandma and Grandpa with their grand kids (minus little scooter - home sick with the sniffles...)

Day at the Park

This morning Uncle Ryan sent us a message saying he was going to take Camryn to the park and if we'd like to join them. Silly question... Park? Of course, we all wanted to hit the park! I think our kids would go to the park every day if we let them. We hopped into the car and met them at Osage Park near our home. It was the first time we played at this park and we loved it! Can't wait to go again!

Gregory's favorite - the corkscrew

SNOW!

This afternoon I received an email from a store near our house saying it was going to snow at the plaza tonight. So I called Clark to see if he could come home early so we could take the kids. He was able to get home by 6pm so we bundled the kids up and headed for the mall. They were going to have a jazz concert of holiday music and a "snow show." The band starts playing and this lady starts singing and stuff starts falling from the sky! Ah, SNOW! We sit back and watch the stuff fall to the ground and then Bailey said she wanted to go and catch some. We move closer and the "snow" falls around us and she catches a flake and it's BUBBLES! Teeny tiny bubbles flying all over the mall. Very beautiful. The kids had a lot of fun chasing after the flakes and dancing to the music. It was freezing out there so we only stayed about 30 minutes and decided to go and check out the Christmas lights near our home. (There's a whole neighborhood that decorates their homes for the holidays. In fact, we heard you need to sign a contract that you'll decorate your home when you buy a house there!) Anyways, I think we need to go back next weekend. Still too early, but we did see some very nicely decorated homes! Starting to really feel like Christmas!

Can you see the bubbles??

You Can't Catch Me! I'm the Gingerbread Man!

When I went to pick Gregory up from school today he told me the gingerbread cookies they made at school ran away and made a great big mess! They had to search all the doors (rooms with doors) to look for them and they finally found them in the classroom! What a day he had!

Well, tomorrow Bailey's class is going to make gingerbread cookies and since she won't be able to participate due to her allergies we made gingerbread here at home so she can take a cookie to school to eat with the rest of the other kids. Our cookies stayed in the oven so we didn't have to run after them, but we sure made a mess all by ourselves! The kids had a great time decorating them with "chocolate" chips, raisins, dried cranberries, non-pereils (white not silver) and gummy life savers. Oh, they used sparkle gel to glue all the goodies onto the cookies. You'll see Bailey's cookies are red and Gregory's are green.