Christmas morning. Calli was so sick she really wasn't in to opening presents. Livvy of course woke up, looked into the unlit and dark living room, saw her brand new radio flyer retro red tricycle and yelled "grandma got me my bike....at the red store!" (target). She had gone with Merri and I to target on Black Friday and saw everything we had purchased. I had no idea she would remember everything we got. Well she did. And several other things as well. I guess Nick and I can no longer shop with the kids at Christmas time.

Christmas Eve. They got to open up one gift. From Bama and Bampa. New Jammies! Livvy loved hers so much she had to model. Hmmmm. Who does that sound like?









































Our first real snow of the season. Livvy LOVED it! I just couldn't resist the next shot. She had a little bit of a draft goin' on there, you think? How do ya like those homemade boots mom? Reminds me of us growing up. Livvy doesn't have any boots because we just don't get that much snow so Alisha and I concocted make-shift boots out of wal-mart bags. We used bread bags when I was growing up.

Sitting pretty by the barrel of fire.






Livvy with Prancer. She was really sad when prancer didn't say goodbye to her. Because apparently all of Santa's reindeer can talk.
The girls at The Idaho Botanical Gardens. We took the girls there last night to see all the christmas lights. Over 250,000 lights. It was so pretty. It was snowing, there were fire barrels for warming everywhere, there was santa and one of his reindeer. The girls had a blast.

Cheesy poses from the girls. These first ones are of Calli shortly after finishing lunch. What a Ham!! Show us the Waller Cheese. Livvy doesn't quite have it down like Calli nor does she have the big Waller teeth like mommy. She has her daddy's smile.

Our beautiful tree half decorated. But sad to say it must come down as looks can be deceiving. It is almost completely dead. I know what you are all saying. It is so green. I guess the move was more tragic than we originally thought. Because from head to toe it is completely crunchy. So we will be headed out to get another tree. And another sad fact, possibly a fake tree. My husband will be in tears the day we buy a fake tree.

We finally got our tree this year. Well we actually got it a couple of weeks ago, but I just got it decorated as we have been in the middle of a horrendous move and I was just able to locate all the Christmas decorations. Our poor tree though. I believe it suffered the greatest shock of any of us. Just after getting it, 3 days exactly, we moved. So needless to say it is suffering just a little. But is is still pretty. The girls had so much fun picking out a tree with their dad. Livvy especially as she loved to smell the trees right along side him. Then of course we went inside and saw all the decorations. That was even more fun. But what was the greatest hit. "We got our tree at Daddy's store". Because Nick works out of all the Lowe's stores here in Boise, Livvy calls all the Lowe's stores "Daddy's store". It's so cute. Like yesterday, I went to Lowe's, came home with a small bag and she jumped up and down after seeing the Lowe's bag shouting "mommy went to Daddy's store, mommy went to Daddy's store". Can you say proud. Anyway. That was the COOL part of the evening was getting the tree at Daddy's store.

Me and the girls

Our trunk or treat at our ward last night. Then we went around to a few houses just for kicks, I think it was more for Nick than it was for the girls. He sure got a kick out of people oohing and aahing over all the girls. A true dad at heart.

Okay so this was round one on saturday last week. Trunk or treat at lisha's ward. The girls had a blast. Calli a Lady Bug and Livvy (of course) a white cat. But she kept being mistaken as a mouse. Hmmm, she wasn't so sure about that. But I'll tell you what. Calli came home with about dbl the candy livvy did. Maybe she layed on the charm a little more. We aren't quite sure.

SLUMBER PARTY! Avry and Livvy had their very first slumber party. Boy were they excited. We had popcorn, we watched a movie and stayed up late. They had so much fun. Avry made herself right at home, as always. She just snuggled up to her Uncle Nick and dug right in to the big bowl of butter popcorn.