I know...I know...I am so behind!

St. Pat's Day....

My Little Fashion Model

Barrett was a swimsuit model in the American Girl Fashion Show at Sacred Heart Academy in St. Charles on March 6th, 2009. Despite her usual shy demeanor, she did a dynamite job strutting the runway. She had a great time and I'm so proud of her!

Snow day!

Let's go to the hop

On Friday night, Barrett and I went to a sock hop at her school. In preparation for the dance, all the kids learned dance steps in gym class that they could perform at the event. She learned the swim, the twist, the monkey, the hokey pokey and of course, the chicken dance. One day she came home and said that she learned two dances that were way too hard and way too fast -- but she couldn't remember what they were called. After a short description, I came to the conclusion that they were the Macarena and the Hand Jive -- and I gave her a brief presentation of both. She was shocked that that her OLD mom would know how to do these things.

After some practice to the tunes of MTV -- we dolled up in our rolled jeans, high pony tails and scarves and went on our way. We had a hoppin' good time!

Had ourselves a merry little Christmas...

A wonderful Christmas was had by all here at our house. A beautiful Christmas Eve mass, lots of presents at Grandmas (including a surprise Barbie dream house for the girls), running wild with the cousins, great food and lots of caroling. Everyone got what they wanted from Santa: Peyton got her swimming rescue dog, Barrett got her Wii, Daddy got Mario kart and mommy got her spinning shoes (and a fabulous coat too). Santa apparently doesn't know there is a recession going on! So we've all been spoiled and we are all very thankful for the extravagant Christmas -- that we will worry about later!

We hope everyone else had a beautiful Christmas too -- and a happy new year.

A Whole Lot of Christmas Goin' On...

Over the weekend, Santa visited our neighborhood and took the kids for carriage rides up and down the street.


Then, Barrett had her Christmas performance at school. All the Kindergartners sang songs to the parents and grandparents. Barrett was wonderful!


And finally, Peyton had her Preschool Christmas party. They played games, made ornaments and decorated cookies. And mommy got to be one of the class helpers.

Girls will be girls...

At Barrett's Kindergarten birthday party the girls set out to bowl...but did more of this! Hand claps and Eeeny Meeny Miney Moe? Girls will be girls, I guess.