2011 Merry Christmas Newsletter

Here is our newsletter!
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Hope you all enjoy!!!
Love y'all!!!

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Christmas 2011!

We just had a few fun pictures from a wonderful family Christmas this year!

Here are some of the funny highlights of the day!

Rachel and her Mega T-Rex!!


Emma and her La-La-Loopsy doll!


Sarah and her ipod!!


Playing our new game "SING IT!!!". I love that they laughed and laughed through most of the songs. There is even a way to play back their singing as mice or as lions! halarious!!!


Our new table top soccer game! They can't get enough of it!


Sarah and her pez! yum!


Santa brought a HUGE box of chocolates! The girls loved opening the box and reading about which candy they were eating! love it!


For the last picture, I really wanted to include this. This is Sarah hanging up our new family Christmas tree ornament for 2011. It is from our trip to Disney World! What a blast!


What a great year for us!!!
We hope everyone had a very, very Merry Christmas!!!

Fabulous Dance Recital!!!

The girls have been so blessed to be taking dance at our YMCA from a fabulous teacher, Ms. Kate, who we love so much!!!

I had to put this picture up of putting mascara on Rachel. I love the look on her face! It was so much fun!

Emma is in a combo class with tap, ballet, tumbling, etc... She is so excited every week to go to dance!
Rachel and Sarah are taking a Hip Hop class together and they LOVE it!

I had to take a quick picture before the recital!
They were so excited!!!

Sarah and Rachel did their dance to the song "Calling All the Monsters" and it was FABULOUS!!!!

Emma had 2 dances at the recital!

Her first dance was a tap dance to the song "Barbie Girl". They got to pick which Barbie they wanted to be and Emma chose to be from the new "Princess Charm School" barbie movie. She was so cute and funny!!!!!!!

For her second dance, Emma danced ballet to the song "I Can Only Imagine". She looked so beautiful and fabulous in her white tutu. She loves ballet so much! This was perfect dance for her! Beautiful girl!




At the end of the recital, everyone danced around to a fun rendition of "Walking in a Winter Wonderland"!! What a fun way to end the recital!



Oh, and I HAD to include this dance sequence by Rachel. She LOVES to freestyle dance! It is totally her thing!





Here are the girls at the end with the AMAZING Ms. Kate!!!
Thank you so much for all you do!
And Sarah, Rachel, and Emma~ we are so proud of you! You are fabulous and wonderful and beautiful and funny and good!!!

Christmas Piano Recitals

This year we had 2 Christmas Piano Recitals to attend!

~First we had Rachel's recital. She has been playing for 4 months and she LOVES it!!!
And she is great at it, too! (she loves her teacher, Brittany Hall, too!)


Rachel played "The 12 Days of Christmas" and "Yankee Doodle". We are so proud of you, Rachel! You have been practicing so hard and your songs were wonderful!

The next day Sarah had her piano recital and she did awesome! She has been taking from her teacher, Jamie Snarr, for almost 3 years, and it is so great to listen to her!

Sarah's solo was "Jingle Bells". Great job!


Playing a duet with her teacher is one of her favorite things to do! Sarah played "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" and it was beautiful!

Playing the piano is so much fun!

The girls both love playing the piano! We are so proud of how hard the girls work! They are both such wonderful girls!

And our Fabulous Family Beach pictures!

Ever since we knew we were going to Florida, I knew we HAD to do our family pictures at the beach. Thanks so much, Michelle and Joy for all your help!

We went to Cocoa Beach and it was beautiful! All that we ever dreamed!

I love feet in the sand!

I am so happy to have a new picture of me and Richard!

While we were waiting for the sun to begin setting, Richard took a few snapshots of our barefoot little girls!

Sarah is such a big girl now! She is 9 years old and sometimes I think she acts even older! So beautiful!

I love this picture of Rachel. She is such a fun 7 year old! I love this girl!

And our Emma, who is 5 years old. She is such a sweetie. And I love that we have such a great picture of her at this age!

This series of pictures are the ones that Richard had been thinking about ever since we bought Sarah that dress. So beautiful!

What a blessing these girls are! We love them so much!

Families are Forever!

It was so nice to walk and talk with my eternal companion.

I love you, Richard! Forever!

Here is the family picture. I love it!

It turned out perfect!!!