Here are the girls in their new Christmas jammies! We had a great Christmas this year! We stayed home Christmas Day and then went to visit our families in Edmonton on Boxing Day for a few days! Emily and Bethany were SO excited about Santa this year! Emily woke up at 3 AM Christmas morning (presumably to go to the bathroom) and saw her presents from Santa sitting under the tree! It took me almost 2 hours to get her to go back to sleep! But she did thank goodness! At 8:00 Tim and I were too excited to sleep anymore, so we woke up the girls! We had a nice morning opening and playing with presents! In the afternoon we were able to go to the church and have a big Christmas dinner with all our friends! In Edmonton we got to go on a hay ride out at my uncle George's and skating with my family! We also got to take the girls to WEM to go to Galaxy Land on the rides there! Emily and Beth got more presents from their grandparents and aunts and uncles! They are so spoiled. We had a fun little trip! We came home on the 30th to get ready for the New Years party we were having at our house! It was fun! We played games, ate lots of yummy food and set off fireworks! We love the Christmas season and it always seems to go by too quickly! We are looking forward to the new year and hope to have lots of fun together! We have been so blessed this past year and have had so many wonderful experiences! I can't wait to do it all again this year!

Beth had to help clean up too! She actually did a great job!

Tim's dad and his brother came up for the weekend and were able to get the drywall started! Then that night, Tim decided to cut himself bad enough to get stitches! What a bum!!

Here's Emily helping clean up the office space we're building in the basement! She loves this kind of stuff!!

Here's what the new house looks like upstairs!! The kitchen is SO much bigger then what we have now and the living room will be lacking a TV which will make it more roomy too! We love the house! We're in the process of finishing the basement, which is taking much longer then we would like! But it's coming along and it'll be so nice! We're moving on the 8th of November! Hooray!

The girls and I took a trip out to Pipestone where we spent the afternoon taking pictures, throwing rocks in the river and playing at the park! I love the fall! And I think this was our last day of hot weather! (22 degrees celcius in October is unheard of!!) So it was obviuos we needed to be outside enjoying this beautiful day! I love my girls! It took a lot of bribery to get them to cooperate, but we had many pictures turn out great!!

It's fall! Hooray! The prettiest time of the year! Which means it's time for pictures of the prettiest girls in the world! We were able to go to Edmonton for the weekend. So, we took the girls to Chickakoo Lake to take pictures! We had such a beautiful day! The girls were pretty good too! I think we got some keepers!

So, our house is for sale!! Any takers?? Hehehe... We've decided to move to a new home in a newer neighborhood! This will enable Emily to only move schools once until she's off to junior high! The place we're at now won't let us move up without switching schools and we'd rather make the change while she's still young enough to not care too much! We will miss this house though! We've put a lot of work into it and it's the first home we had coming to GP! But it's time to move up! And the time is right! We are so blessed to have this opportunity!

Emily's off to grade one!! I can't believe how fast she's growing up! She was SO excited for her first day of school! We get to wake up nice and early which is a new experience for all of us! We're actually falling into the routine pretty well! Beth loves having her mom and the house all to herself! The first few days of school, Emily came home pretty grumpy. Being at school all day everyday is hard work! It's going to be such an exciting year with her learning to read and write!!! I can't wait to watch how much she grows this year!

Happy Birthday to Emily!!! Now my big 6 year old! And ready for grade one and ready for all her teeth to start falling out! Emily was spoiled with 3 birthday parties! One in Edmonton with the Salter family, one at home with us, and one with her friends! She was spoiled with way too many presents! But how can we not give her so much when she's such a great girl! We love having her as a part of our family! She's growing up so fast!