El Paso, TX has never been on my list of places to visit but now that the Karhan Clan has made the move, we made the trip. The girls and I headed down for a week. The kids all had so much fun playing together. We don’t see our cousins often enough with them living so far away. We definitely enjoyed the sunny weather and spent lots of time at the park, visited the zoo, and just played outside in the yard and sandbox.
The girls have been going to ski school for a couple weeks. They have moved on to the magic carpet and bunny hill. Emma is doing great and seems to really enjoy skiing. Madi is taking her time to figure it all out. She will get there in her own time as she always does. They both have made big strides since we started.
Emma making pizza, coming down the bunny hill.
The girls love spending time with Auntie Kendra. They also love getting their finger nails and toe nails painted so Auntie treated them to some pampering at home tonight.
Today we started ski school with the girls. We enrolled them in a seven week program through Ski Masters. Because of their young age it is a parent/toddler class meaning Daddy and Mommy get to participate too. They were a bit hesitant at first, but Emma picked it up pretty quickly. Madi is still our little cautious one and it took her a little while to warm up to the idea. Plus with me there, it made it even harder. But all in all it went well and we are hopefully on our way to many more years of skiing as a family.
Toy Story is a huge hit in this house. Santa loaded up the girls with a Toy Story Christmas and they couldn’t have been more excited. Tim also came through as usual with gifts for the girls. They are quite spoiled by him. After his return from the East Coast for the holidays, he had one more surprise for them.
Watching and waiting
They weren’t quite sure what to think.
Yesterday we had the a little playdate at our house with Nana, the Aunties, cousins and our friends the Richards. Kate has two young boys, Jake who is a couple months younger than the girls and Ben who is the baby of the group. It was fun to have all the littles together.
All the kids decorating cookies while the adults attempted to socialize and catch up.
After all the fun, Molly got to have a sleep over with the girls. It was a long day and the girls crashed.
Having some toast in the morning before having to take Molly down to meet Auntie Kiersten.
Being silly
The girls got some great little art project kits for Christmas that they get to do with Daddy. He is off the whole week between Christmas and New Year’s so they have a lot of time to hang out and have fun.
Monday night’s project- paper bag puppets
Reading the map to see what needs to be done first.
Wednesday’s project- more puppets
