Sunday, December 29, 2013

December 2013: Home for the Holidays


Kalia laughing on the grass, silly girl!

These girls do not want to leave the home street.
We've been playing a little outside, made a trip to the otherside for supplies,
but other than that, they refuse to leave.  They must play at home...

Kalia giving Maya scooter lessons- what a good big sis!

Trying out my new camera outside:)
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Friday, December 27, 2013

Christmas 2013






Christmas 2013
We had such a wonderful day, we did absolutely nothing but stay in our pajamas and open presents and play, play, play.  So fun!

The girls coming out to see if Santa came!

 
Checking out if the reindeer ate their food!


Kalia literally played with her My Little Pony Equestria Dolls all day.
She would go and open something and then come back to her dolls- all day.

Me and Maya

Maya and her Chelsea doll & pony from Tutu & Grandpa

Presents from Papa!


Playing with her Barbie RV from Papa

Erik putting together his skateboard!

Maya riding her scooter (from Papa)

The girls took about an hour to just sit and listen and sing to the soundtrack from "Frozen"- thanks Tutu & Grandpa.  It's been playing for 48 hours here and I think we all know the words now.  We might have to go see it one more time in the theater!

Legos
Our coffee table is currently a lego friends city.
I really love legos, I don't know who has more fun with them, the girls or me!

Ooh- look at those little fingers.
She's getting to be a big girl, but she still has a little bit baby chub fingers, just a little bit!

Erik's calling this the photo of the day!
Pushing my sister on Daddy's new skateboard:)

Christmas smiles

Merry Christmas!

These photos are all taken with my brand new camera!
(Thanks e- I LOVE it!!!)

Maya Papaya

At one point, with 18 presents still to open,
this is what the girls were doing.
Next year, they are just getting cardboard boxes...

Maya!
I love how Kalia labeled the box on the side.

More box fun.
Playing with the wagon that Kalia got for Christmas 5 years ago.
cardboard boxes next year- seriously!

Actually, these girls played with all of their new things for hours and hours.  We played games and made the rubber band loom bracelets late into the night.  What a fun and magical day!
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Thursday, December 26, 2013

Christmas Eve


Christmas Eve with the Hendricksons
Horseshoes
Just Dance 4 on Wii
Fatties
Headbands- game
Annual Cookie Decorating Contest

Decorating cookies is serious business!

Game faces on!

The finished products!

Which one do you think is the winner?

Maya & Alana jam

Reindeer food
Cereal & carrots

Santa cookie display
Notice the handmade cards, reindeer head gear, christmas box made by Maya, Holiday Cheer Meter, Cookies, Milk and Shrinky Dink Christmas Tree.
You know Santa was stoked!

Girls in their "Santa Loves Me" PJs- thanks to Auntie Kim!

The cards- front

Kalia's inside

Maya's inside

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...


Our little reindeer girls.

Our Christmas lights,
we then proceeded to go around the neighborhood and see if anyone had better ones that us.  Erik is turning into a regular Clark Griswald.  When we watched that movie later, I really did see some similarities between the two...

Window decorations from Auntie Kim- this is serious business.
Kalia wanted to make sure the words were not backwards, we may have had issues with this in the past.

Breakfast with Santa at Sacred Hearts School

Mrs. Lolesio & Kalia
at the Sacred Hearts School Christmas Program 2013
at Kaanapali Beach Hotel
2nd Grade Performed, Little Drummer Boy

Crafts & Cookie Decorating at Hula Grill


Maya, Scarlett, Kalia
Cookies!

The girls watching Santa come in on the outrigger canoe!
 ho ho ho
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December 2013: Holiday Cheer


Our Christmas Tree
It is huge!  And look, we set it up, put lights on and the ornaments on the same night.
Erik normally likes to spread this out over 3 days, but we powered it out in one night.
I blame it on the late Thanksgiving, but we really were running out of time!

Kalia putting on the sleigh bell that Santa left a few years ago!

Maya & Tutu's toy soldier!
 

Santa Erik & Kalia putting on the last of the ornaments:)

It was Kalia's turn to put the star on the top of the tree.

Parasailing at Leilani's Holiday Christmas Party

Having fun on the boat-waiting for our turn.

The girls got to go twice, tandem with me and then again with Erik.
They were a little nervous at first, but then they LOVED it!
We went so high and they were screaming with glee- so fun!
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