Christmas Day

Christmas morning Sophie was in her new pajamas and we opened the gifts we got for each other!

Of course she got some more Elmo stuff :)
Here's Jason opening up a gift!
Here's Sophie again :) (Note she's carrying the Elmo from Christmas Eve)

Opening up her potty seat :)

Sophie wants to be a big girl

Sophie wants to be a big girl! She will no longer sit in her high chair, so now she sits in a regular seat!

Christmas Eve!

On Christmas Eve we opened the presents from Grandpa and Grandma Light!
The highlight of Sophie's Christmas Eve was opening an Elmo toy!
As soon as Sophie saw her Elmo toy she gave it a hug!
Then she gave it a kiss!
Sophie loved this Dr. Seuss "One fish, two fish" book that grandpa and grandma got her! She loves fish!
Smiling for the camera!


Here's daddy opening up the radio-controlled car he got with some money from his parents

The many faces of Sophie

Here's Sophie's new favorite face to make! We think it's hilarious!





Here's Sophie in mommy's hat!

Snow/Making treats!

Sophie refused to wear her gloves and kept pulling them off, so of course when she touched the snow and felt how cold it was, she freaked out! I think she's kind of afraid of the snow right now like she used to be with the grass!
Here she is another day ready to go outside!



BAKING!

Jason had this great idea to make chocolate-covered cinnamon drops (kind of like they had chocolate-covered cinnamon bears at the BYU bookstore) Here he is getting into quite the routine. I got demoted from it a couple times after dropping the cinnamon drops in the chocolate. Ha!

(Sorry this pic is blurry) These are chocolate crinkles — something new to try this year. They turned out pretty good!
Next, we just have to do another batch or two of fudge, since we had some problems with the fudge setting up properly the first go around. Hope everybody we're giving treats to likes chocolate, since it turned out to be a lot of chocolate this year! :)


RACE CAR
Jason wanted me to put this up. He got this radio-controlled race car this weekend with some money that his mom sent for Christmas. He's looking forward to the spring when he can take it over to a school/church parking lot to test it out! He's such a kid at heart!

SNOW!

The Minnesota we know and love (and hate) is back! We got dumped with tons of snow yesterday/last night! Pictures to come!

Here's the house! Look how high the piles are getting and this was only the first major snow of the year. When we first came out the door Wednesday there were 2 and 3 foot drifts. We supposedly got 13 inches.
A slice of the snow by the sidewalk! It's hard to tell how thick this is from the picture, but it goes up past my knees!
Jason getting ready to venture out into the cold with his face mask!

We haven't let Sophie go outside and play yet since the temperatures have been so low. (In the single digits for the high and below zero for the low). But hopefully in the next few days we can get some good pictures of her playing in the snow!

Sophie and hats!

The past week or two Sophie has loved putting on Jason's beanie. It's like she's getting ready for the snow (that we don't have). Here she is with her own hat on and then Jason's hat in the last two pics.



Doesn't Sophie look so tough? I think these pics are hilarious!

Getting ready for Christmas!

We put up the tree today! Sophie seemed scared of the tree at first, then she couldn't stop saying 'tree' over and over again. She got tangled up in the lights when we put the lights on, and then when we put on the ornaments we kind of did an assembly line where I handed the ornaments to Sophie and then Sophie handed them to Jason. Once the ornaments were on, then she kept wanting to take them off.

The Mouse

So last year, we got Sophie this play mouse for cats at the Dollar Store one day because she loved playing with it. Recently, it resurfaced, and now she's scared of it!
I know it's mean, but I couldn't help but post these pictures.

FISHIES!

Sophie LOVES fish! Everytime we go somewhere with fish, whether it's Walmart, my work, or Cabela's, we take Sophie to see the fish! She just points at them and says over and over again, "Fishies! Fishies!"
So we decided to get her two goldfish, and they're in the living room!


Here she is getting excited about the fish!

Sophie around the house!

Sophie has this new thing where she loves to put on "bracelets" (some real, some not)
(Note the weird hair strand ... there's this piece that seems to be longer at times than others.)
Here she is for a close-up at the camera! Isn't her little Albert Lea Tigers sweatshirt adorable?

Happy Halloween!!

Sophie was a bumblebee!!



Here's some pics from our church Halloween activity:
Jason's probably going to kill me for putting this up, but here he is with the mullet wig he got! Ha! He also had some crazy teeth that he wore (He was a hillbilly) He won first place for the adult costume category, too! Ha!
Sophie checking things out!

By the end of the night, Sophie ditched her wings and eventually her actual costume.