Tea Party

Here's a picture of the dinner Bella prepared for her brother and all her dolls. Everyone is sitting at the table. From left to right you see Bella, Bitty, Samantha, Stella babydoll in the highchair and Coyle. It's not a great picture, but it was cute to see the preparations, table settings and then everyone eating together!

Army Princess

Coyle and Bella love to play together. Sometimes they go on secret spy missions and other times they are army guys trying to fight the bad guys. Here is Bella dressed in her Army Princess getup. Lovely!

Mad!!

Bella was so mad at Clay and I. She wanted to eat a mini donut for dessert, and we told her she had to eat more dinner first. Well, she would have none of it. She threw the world's biggest fit. We found it pretty amusing and had to snap a shot of her. I don't think the picture does the fit justice, you really need volume!

Snow Day!

Tuesday we had a snow day. Here's Clay and the kids all bundled up and ready to go sledding. Coyle resisted going but then didn't want to come home. Bella loved every minute of it!

Pretend Play

Coyle and Bella had fun with some pretend play the other night. This is a "hurt" Bella on the stretcher. She was so serious about it. Her foot is injured. Coyle pulled her around the house like an ambulance until they arrived at the hospital.
Here is Dr. Coyle checking out his patient. He determined that she had bugs inside her foot and surgery was performed. I'm happy to report she's fully recovered :-)

Snow Girl!

Here's Bella and Clay all bundled up and ready to tackle the snow on Christmas. Bella insisited on taking out her new umbrella :-)

Christmas at Gram Gram's

Getting ready to leave, looking all snazzy in their new outfits from Grandpa and Grandma.The boys hanging out.
Helping Gram open her presents. Bella loved helping people open gifts this year.

Sunday 12/26 we drove to Vandalia to celebrate Christmas with my mom. The kids love visiting Gram Gram and had a fun tim

Mosley Christmas

We hosted Mosley Christmas this year. It was a ton of work, but we had so much fun having everyone over. From Tues. 12/22 through Christmas morning we had family stay with us. Our largest overnight crowd was 17 people and for dinner on Thursday night we served 22.Hanging out in the basement playing some shuffleboard.
Time for presents and our silly "Dirty Santa" game.

Christmas Morning-Part 3

Time for stockings! I love that the kids are still so young that they forget about stockings. It ends up being the last thing we do, and everyone enjoys it!
This is Bella's "cheese" face. We try not to ask her to smile or say cheese because this is what we get. Cracks us up, we call her pirate cheese face!