Birthdays

Friday was Claire's 3rd birthday...crazy!! I can no longer say she is a baby! We went to Gymnastics unlimited's open gym and out to McDonald's for lunch with some friends. My camera's battery was dead so I didn't get any pictures, but Clarie had a blast! We had her party on Saturday, which was Ryan's 30th birthday. Claire loves anything Dr. Seuss, I think she has Green Hams and Eggs (as she likes to call it) memorized we have read it so many times. So that was the theme for her party. She was so excited when she woke up on Saturday to Dr. Seuss decorations everywhere!

Here she is on Saturday it her new tutu from her friend Carter.



The Cat in the Hat cake. It took 4 bottles of red food coloring to get the icing that red.




She had a hard time getting the candles blown out. It was so funny!



Poor Ryan spent his 30th birthday celebrating Claire's . I don't think he minded much! He still got to go out that night for his birthday.


Claire and her best bud Carmen.



Claire is OBSESSED with Alvin and the Chipmunks still. We got her the soundtrack to the second one and the girls were dancing to all the single ladies. We got video of it that I (meaning Ryan) is going to put on...hilarious!!


Here is Claire on her actual birthday wearing her new Dr. Seuss pajamas. I told her to hold up how many fingers she was.

We had a much needed 2 weeks to relax and enjoy each other. The beginning of December up until Christmas break is always insane with all of Ryan's school activities. This year we had Abby's school activities added to the mix and we were all burnt out. I took the two weeks of work. We went to several movies, went out to eat, and enjoyed all of the fun stuff their is to do in Indy around Christmas time, but mainly just hung out. I got tons of pictures from break and just couldn't resist posting a bunch...



Here are several from decorating cookies with my mom, the girls, and my nieces. The girls love to bake and decorate and they were troopers and helped with the billions of cookies we made that day.

Olivia, Carmen, Claire, and Abby so proud of all their decorating.


Ryan was just so excited to help (this was the only 5 seconds he was in the room)!





Here are the girls before Christmas Eve service at out church.


The whole fam before church.



It did not take long to get through all of the presents!


Both girls were so excited they could barely stand it. I don't think I have ever seen Abby so excited in her life. I wish I could have gotten a picture of her when she peeked over the banister and saw all the presents!



The girls both wanted babies for Christmas. Claire got one that is sick, and Abby got one that pees. They love to play with their babies. I think this was their favorite gift! The girls are at such fun ages, and they made Christmas so fun this year! We opened all of our presents, left the mess at home and went over to Ryan's parents for the afternoon. After their house, we went to Leslie's and opened gifts at her house.



Later on during the week, it snowed (or was it before Christmas, I can't remember) The girls had a blast playing in it. It was SO cold out and Claire did not last that long. Abby was a trooper and I had to make her come in.