Christmas Eve 2010

We had a wonderful holiday season this year. I have lots of blogs to do, so I won't write too much - check out the pics from Christmas Eve 2010.

We stopped over at Kory's mom and stepdad's house to give little Zander his xmas present. Snapped this cute pic of Emme and Zpants.

 We spent Christmas Eve evening at Cori & Jeff's new house. They hosted a wonderful holiday with my entire family and our good family friends - Mary & Ray.

There was quite the array of new Wisconsin attire considering the Stampf's relocation to WI and my parents moving to WI too!!

Here's Em showing Grammy the book we made for her of Em's pics from 2010.

Love this pic of Casey & Mike

This was Casey and Mike fighting over who had the better team...is it WI (mike's shirt) or IA (casey's shirt)...looks to me like Iowa won out in this photo!!!

We got this cute sweatshirt for Braenna. She loves Elmo! She immediately had her mommy put it over her adorable Christmas dress!

Here is Em using her new hair salon kit to fix Grammy's hair. Also Mikaiya, Mary and Ray looking on as someone is opening another present!

Here's Em very excited to open the Dora doll that CeCe and Mike got her!!!

Look at that death stare---"Do NOT touch my Dora doll, Braenna". LOL!

Here's the 3 girls with the puppets that Mary and Ray got them.

More WI attire!!!

Here's Ray (a nurse) showing Emily how the knee hammer works out of her Dr's kit. Thanks Ray! Now she walks around banging it on my knee!!!

Braenna loves her Papa!!!!

Here's the girls sprinkling the reindeer food :)

Oh wait...Dad got a WI shirt too :)

Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas everyone.

Emme's 3rd Birthday Party

Kory and I hosted Emily's 3rd birthday party at Bouncy Town. We had 12 kids show up, ages ranged from 8 weeks old to 4 years old! We had a great time.

Em coming down the slide

Uhh...Em coming down a little too fast...and upside down!

Parents watching their kids play

Here's my niece Mikaiya having a blast!

This is little Olivia...she is the fastest crawler I have ever seen :)

Little Noah jumping in the bouncy house

Here's the kids eating their pizza and sandwiches

Here's a pic after Em had blown out her 3 candles. She was such a good girl!

Andrea and Tyler eating their cupcakes

Anika and Kendall eating their ice cream and cupcakes!

A cute family shot! We all had such a great time.

Zander hates cupcakes...can you tell? LOL!

Em was the most graceful present opener I have ever seen! She opened each card, Kory told her who the gift was from - she would look around the room to find the person, then gently open each present and thank each person individually. By the end of present opening I think there were about 5 people left in the entire room...BORING! Hey - at least she appreciated each gift and the people who gave it to her!

Here she is opening up her crayola art kid. She has already used it plenty!!

Carefully opening a present

Getting ready to dive into a big gift bag!

Emme and Ani opening their favor bags - everyone loved the silly bands, of course!

We wanted to thank all our friends and family for coming out to celebrate Emme's 3rd birthday. We had such a good time and hope you all did too. We can't believe our sweet little baby girl is going to be THREE in just a few days!!

Christmas Cookie Baking in WI

For then first time in over 10 years, I was together with my mom and both my sisters to bake cookies. Here we are figuring out who is going to make what...it was quite the scene....

Casey, Mom and Cori getting ready to start baking

While cooking, the girls played nicely. Here Mikaiya is teaching Emily something...not sure what! I think Em just wanted a turn with the marker :)

Braenna happily eating the cookie she picked out!

Mikaiya wondering how many cookies she can sneak away from the table :)

Emme with her special cookie!

Here's a shot of the cut-out sugar cookies we made that day.

Here's the shot of the other cookies/candies we made which include: spritz, reeses pb cup cookies, fudge, peppermint bark, peanut brittle, buckeye balls, peanut butter balls and I'm sure a few other ones I am forgetting!!!

Thanks to Cori for hosting us. We had a great time! It helped that she has 2 full kitchens in her house so we were able to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Thankfully the 3 little ones entertained themselves...for the most part :)
Looking forward to next year already!

Early December Festivities

Well incase you haven't heard Mrs. Kacey Vosberg graduated with her Bachelor's degree from college in December...therefore a gigantic party was in order! Kacey and Tony hosted a paparazzi style red-carpet bash at their house. We had so much fun! Here's some photos to prove it....

Georgous ladies! Me, Cori, Kacey, Amy and Tiffy

Brother and Sisterly love :)

Me and my honey

Me and the new college grad! Congrats Kacey! We are soooo proud of you!

Jeff and Cori got to come!! Yay to moving to WI :)

End of party photo! Still quite the group left.

The rest of the pics are just random December pics I've taken so far this month. Many more to come with Christmas and Emily's 3rd birthday!! It's a busy month for us!

Love this one of Emmers

I babysat my niece's this past weekend - it's never too cold or too snowy to play on the swingset!!!

Here's Uncle Kory helping all 3 girls build a snowman

Em is absolutely loving having her cousins here in WI. Her and Braenna are the two trouble-makers. We are sooo in for it!!

Here is Emme helping me decorate the Christmas tree. We don't go all out for the holidays, but we like to put up a few things to make our house look special.

My snow angel :)

Just thought this was an amazing pic! Like Otis's tail on the edge of the photo? Forgot to crop it before I posted it...whoops!

Here's to wishing everyone a very happy upcoming Christmas! We have Em's birthday party at Bouncy Town this weekend, so I'll try to do a blog after that. Should be a great time!