Sledding and Playing outside!

Jax playing some music while Kylie dances

Kylie's 3rd Birthday!!!

We can't believe that our baby girl turned 3 on January 10th!!! Time has flown by and it's hard to believe that she isn't really our "baby" anymore...She is an amazing sister to Jaxon and is definitely a spit-fire! She LOVES babies, music, dancing, puppies, kitties, and eating :) Her favorite characters are Hello Kitty and Strawberry Shortcake. She is definitely our girly girl and likes her nails painted, hair preferably in a braid, and sparkly shoes. She started swimming lessons this year and so far strongly dislikes it. She also started dance lessons and spent the first one on my lap.

For her birthday, she had a breakfast complete with a candle in french toast and then went to daycare and shared her cupcakes. Due to our crazy schedules, we planned to celebrate her birthday a day late. We went to the Mall of America and had lunch at the American Girl Bistro, went on some rides at Nickelodean Universe, and went to Sea Life. We finished the evening with a Hello Kitty cake and presents.

Christmas 2011

After a long and stressful school semester, Christmas finally came!! The holidays were filled with family, food, and lots of presents!! It is our first Christmas in our new home, so we had fun decorating the house and tree! The kids and I with the help from Auntie Ri (home from NYU) made lots of cookies and a gingerbread house. Then Christmas Eve was celebrated with Mimi's (Murphys) side of the family and then Mormor's (Henry's) side. The kids had fun with their cousins and enjoyed the Henry traditions of dancing around the Christmas tree, finding the nut in a dessert (Kylie won), and Santa coming for a visit...Then Christmas morning came and the kids had mounds of presents to open and managed to do them all before 9am! (Which was convenient because I had just come off of a night shift) In the evening, we spent some time at Mormor and Papa's house for dinner and more gifts! Then on the day after Christmas we made the trek down to Indiana to visit the James side...When we arrived, we had yet another Christmas celebration with an amazing meal prepared by Greg's mom! We had a great time throughout the week playing with cousins and family...And after all of that, we still have two more Christmas celebrations to come!! We are truly fortunate and a little spoiled :) We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas season!!

Love~
The Minnesota James Fam