Thanksgiving this year was just the 4 of us. My parents were suppose to come up but cancelled at the last minute. This was going to be my first year making the entire thanksgiving dinner. The only thing I was worried about was getting all the nasty stuff out of the turkey. Wayne and I decided that would be a perfect job for Shea. So a day before Thanksgiving we started getting her really excited about helping mom with an important job for Thanksgiving. When it came time to start the turkey. She got up on the counter really excited, but still not knowing what her important job was to be. I got my camera ready and started to tell her to "Stick your hand in that hole and pull out the little bag." I took this picture. Then she said - "Are you kidding me, I am NOT doing that!"
It was a nice try on my part though. I ended up doing it with no problem. I guess that is only because I used some tongs! On Black Friday, Wayne and I celebrated our 5
th wedding anniversary. It has flown right by. We decided it was a perfect time to go and cut down our Christmas Tree. We had a lot of fun!
Rylee is almost 3 months old. She has already rolled over 7 times, but it is still a work in progress. I love seeing her interact with her toys. She has grown so much and it has only been 3 months! She is such a little stinker and makes us smile everyday. (She is also a mama's girl!)
Wayne has a friend that is the Sears Manager over in Jackson. He sold us a shed for only $50! So Wayne put up his very first shed all by himself. A bunch of curse words later, it is all up and he will never put up another one again! ha ha. I am really proud of him. Once he got going it only took him 2 days to do it. And I will mention again, it was all by himself!
Here is
Rylee again. I love this picture! She really can't move any part of her body, and she is loving it!
Shea is such a character. She has such a personality! She is almost 4 years old and knows how to spell her name. She also almost knows how to write her name, we are still working on that. She hopefully will be starting preschool in the summer. My
visiting teacher is starting a preschool and Shea is already signed up! That is one problem about this Valley is that all the preschools are
Daycare and I don't like that. Shea's new favorite thing is The Nightmare Before Christmas. She watches it when she wakes up and when she goes to bed. She has all the songs memorized and sings them all the time. I will have to post a video of her singing one of the songs. It is really amazing! FYI: She has already blamed the dog for opening a present under the Christmas Tree. Such a
sneak!
The Children's Christmas party at Wayne's work was last week. We had a lot of fun.
Story time
They had a blow up bouncing cage that Shea was on for 30 good minutes. She got really hot so we had to go outside to cool off.
Decorating cookies.
Story and movie time.
Santa Clause came to the party. On the way over to the party, I asked Shea what she was going to ask Santa for Christmas. She said "Small toys, big toys, all sorts of Toy." I love this age, they are happy with anything.
Shea reading the Night Before Christmas book on Christmas Eve.
It is tradition for us to open PJ's on Christmas Eve. Here is Shea showing off her new PJ's. Thanks Grandma Zollinger.
Rylee showing off her PJ's. She looks so excited!
Both my girls!
Shea got a guitar for Christmas. She is singing the "Deck the Halls", but to her it is the Jelly song.
Rylee rockin the bow that Aunt Mandie made for her.
Christmas dinner.
Our newest addition to the family. Santa brought us a Golden Retriever puppy. I heard he might be bringing us a puppy and I was really excited. What was I thinking. It really is a PUPPY, now I never sleep. 
We hope everyone else had a GREAT Christmas.
