My beautiful and talented friend Amanda took these Christmas pictures of my girls while we were in Idaho for Thanksgiving. They turned out great. Thanks! I love you!

Sorry there are a million pictures, but I like to list them this way instead of in a slide show, so you don't have to sit and wait. You can go through them at your own speed!

Amanda took these as well. Talia loves attention, but has a little trouble smiling on demand! It's amazing how Amanda got such cute pictures.

Krissi on the other hand was fabulous! She was all smiles and giggles

She will probably hate me for this one day :) but for now too cute right?

My mom will hate me for putting this one in because her legs are in the background, but it was too cute to leave out. Sorry mom! p.s. It's my mom's birthday today! Love you mom!

For Talia's 3rd birthday we had a little party at the park. The kids played and had a little scavenger race and we opened presents. Here a couple of pics.

Here's one of Krissi so she isn't left behind!

Talia had some pretty funny reactions!

She loves this little microphone, she tells me, "I'm songing"

All the kids, notice Krissi has had too much fun!

After the park we went to some friend's house and had a barbeque and did the pinata. Talia trying to hit the pinata

Talia and Paydon getting some goodies

My cousin Sarah and her family came from Houston to stay with us for that weekend. She basically made this Tinkerbell cake for us. It was so cute and Talia loved it. Thanks!

Our friend's daughter has a birthday party that was 80's themed. We had a little fun dressing up Talia. She had a blast too! When she was all dressed I said, "You look like a rocker-rocker!" So now she calls everything her rocker dress, rocker headband, rocker earrings, etc..

I just found out there is a free kid's club at our mall and they have activities once a month. So I took the girls yesterday and it was Halloween themed. Talia is snow white and she has this face so she doesn't smear her lipstick. Elliana is a pretty kitty and Krissi is a Giraffe (the cutest one there by far!)
This month was sponsored by the fire department so they got to play in the firetruck.

Talia and story time with the witch. Elliana was scared so she was with me and Krissi.

Coloring pictures. Talia still won't smile, she had this face almost the whole time.

At every station, they would give Krissi all the same goodies and she just loved all the new stuff to put in her mouth!

Maybe this face is the trick to getting lipstick to last all day.

A lot of Saturday mornings (at our house "morning" is usually around 11:00 a.m. when everyone is awake and hungry) Wuilman will make arepas and I will make scrambled eggs. I have tried to make arepas a couple of times, but they aren't as good as Wuilman's. Talia loves to help Wuilman make the arepas, so these are a couple pictures of Wuilman trying to teach her.

She loves arepas anyway, but she gets especially excited to eat her "baby ones" as she calls the ones she makes.

Here is Krissi sampling her first arepa.

This only lasted about a minute because she actually ripped off a whole mouthfull. For those of you who have had arepas, you know that they are not soft so that was an accomplishment and she was real upset when I took it away.

This is just a funny picture that I took one day at nap time. I didn't notice until after I had layed her down that she was still clinging to the spoon for dear life!

Krissi was just giggling and smiling one morning and I wanted to try and get a couple cute pictures. Well Talia feels attention-starved these days, so she climbed in the pictures. I was yelling at her to stop climbing like a monkey, but as you can see she doesn't obey that well. :)