December Randoms

Guess what?!  We FINALLY got some pictures off of the camera!  Now is the time to play a little game I like to play a lot...Catch Up!!!  So here goes nothin'!

 Levi LOVES to have anything in his mouth

 AND he's really good at giving us this face :/

 Just cute faces of these cute kids

 chillin' after a good snack at church

 cuddlin' with Daddy

 Daddy with the kids

 mmm, eating some grub!

 Ellie wanted to hold Levi one day...

 then he wanted to hold her!

 We had spaghetti for lunch one day, and Ellie liked it so much she licked her plate clean!  It was leftover spaghetti from my work party :)

 silly goosey girl

 Santa brought Ellie this Art Easel for Christmas and she LOVES it

 Ellie's smiley faces that we told you about...she did these all by herself!

 Hanging out at Grandma Tana's one day

 Can't get enough of that cute dimpled smile!

 playing games with Mom

 We went and saw Frozen the day after Christmas and Ellie crashed as soon as we got in the car!

 Funny glasses

 They both fell asleep on the way home from somewhere, I don't remember, so I put them both on the couches

 Levi and his lovely lady friend Jasmine

 Being a goof after church

Practicing his sitting skills with the Boppy

There will be more pictures, but those were most of them!  Next is Christmas!

Ellie Is Growing Up Too Fast

Ellie loves to be in the bathroom with me while I do my makeup, and she always wants me to "Put gold on my eye, mom."  (meaning eye shadow)  So one day I gave her the mascara and eyeliner and this is what came of it. :)  She is just getting so big way too fast!

Isn't she cute!?  Oh my heck, I love her guts!

Funny Levi Dude

So Levi wants to be big soooo bad, and he hates being treated like he's little.   One day I had him in the bathroom with me while I was getting ready, so I put him in the swing.  He did NOT want to be in there, so this was his way of escaping.  The pictures are kind of blurry because they were taken with my phone, but the pictures tell the story.  Completely. :)

 Success is mine at last!

And yet another example of not wanting to sit in his "baby" seat. ;)  Every time we put him in we have to strap him in, otherwise he is out within a minute.  Such a funny kid!

Christmas Clothes

Ellie and Levi got some cute clothes for Christmas from Grandma and Grandpa Petersen and Grandma Montag.  We had to take pictures of course!

Don't those dimples just make you melt?!  Oh I love them.

 I think these two look so much alike in these pictures

I think my kids are seriously the cutest!  I know I'm a little biased, but hey, I'm the mom!

Riding the Fire Truck with Santa

Our brother-in-law works at the Sunset Fire Department, and every year Santa rides around town on the Fire Truck and the kids of the fire fighters get to ride with him.  Since Navarro doesn't have kids he asked if Ellie could be his rider.  So early one Saturday morning in December we got up and ran over to the fire station to get Ellie on the truck. 

Clint and Ellie got to ride up top and Levi and I got to ride on the inside.  I totally wasn't planning on it so I hadn't gotten ready or anything, so I looked completely awful.  But just as we started to go snow started to come down like nobody's business so Ellie only stayed up top for about an hour.  Then she came inside the truck with Levi and I.  Clint was up there for about three or four hours though!  I felt so bad for him because it was snowing so hard.  But overall it was really fun and we are grateful that Navarro let us come along for the ride!

 Clint is in the orange coat on the left

 Ellie is the pink polka-dot coat up top

 Clint & Ellie on top, on the left

 Uncle Varro in his turn-out gear

 Cute, cute Levi

 Uncle Navarro!

Ellie totally loved the whole ride.  She also got a stuffed doggy, who is named Rover, from the Firemen.  She always talks about her ride on the Fire Truck.  Thanks Uncle Varro!