Monday Moments #52~Final Post of 2014!

It's only fitting that my final "Monday Moments" post is not posted on Monday. I have no idea why, but Mondays are not a good day for me to post. I usually think about blogging multiple times each Monday, always when I'm busy, and then by the end of the night I completely forget. I am also running out of things to post. Two years ago when I started posting weekly I had quite a bit to post about. The girls were younger and learned new things everyday. Now they are both in school and most of our days look pretty much the same. I am also learning to sit back and enjoy the moment more. When I worry about getting a perfect picture or trying to record something I can't really watch what is actually happening. I will always take pictures, probably more than necessary, but I will also attempt to live in the moment. All that said, I'm not planning to post on a weekly basis in 2015.

To finish up 2014, here are a few pictures from Christmas. The girls opened all of the gifts under the tree on Christmas eve, we knew we were leaving Christmas morning and wouldn't have enough time. I didn't take a single picture on Christmas Eve - living in the moment remember :) - but I did get a couple pictures on Christmas morning when the girls got their stockings.

The girls with some of their newest "friends"

Ready for stockings!

Proof that Judy Moody Elody was happy for at least a few seconds...

Didn't last long.... Elody was pouting

Camryn swears the hair in her face doesn't bother her. I think she leaves it just because she knows it bothers me!

Elody used a gift card that she got for Christmas to buy this doll. She is the "Holiday Baking" Doll so we decided we needed to make some cookies. 

Monday Moments #51 ~ 2014 Morton School Christmas Sing-Along

Elody's Kindergarten class.
It was pajama day but Elody insisted on taking her sweater dress to change into before singing.

Camryn's 2nd grade class.

Monday Moments #50 ~ Sing, sing, sing!

Yesterday the girls got to sing at church in the Christmas choir. They love to sing, especially in front of people. I think this might be my favorite "performance" so far.

Enjoying some donuts and juice before service began, they had to be there at 7:30am!

Excuse the beginning of the video, I didn't want to miss any of the first song.

After church the girls went to Good Samaritan Village to sing Christmas carols for Girl Scouts.

the majority of the girls were kindergarteners which made it difficult, but they had fun

Monday Moments #49~ My baby is growing up!

Saturday Camryn was at a birthday party so Elody and I went to Grand Island. While we were there we decided to go ahead and get her an early Christmas present, she got her ears pierced! We are trying to limit the amount of "stuff" the girls are getting this year, instead we are getting them things they can do (like renewing our Museum membership and possibly paying for Minecraft). Ear piecing seemed to fall into that category since it is another thing that won't take up space in our already-too-full house.

she was all smiles as they prepared

Shortly before they actually did it she decided she was nervous and wanted them to do both at the same time. (Note- they weren't even doing it yet in this picture, but she was rather nervous. Not that she would admit it.)

This is immediately after they did it. Not a single tear!

They were only red for a short time!

SO pretty!

Monday Moments #48 ~ New Pics

These last few weeks when I repeatedly said I had nothing to post I was actually dying to share these. I took these pictures about a month ago but wanted to use them for Christmas cards so I didn't want to share them on the blog yet. I actually haven't mailed all of my cards yet but I did send out a batch to family so I figured I was pretty safe to post now. 

This is my personal favorite ;)

Monday Moments #47

Last Wednesday was "Dress-Like-Your-Teacher-Day at School. Elody picked out her own outfit, she said Ms. Reeves likes to wear dresses so this was the obvious choice :) 

Camryn wasn't thrilled about dressing like a guy to start with, then she remembered the tie in our dress up box. I'm not sure if Mr. Butler has ever worn a tie to school but this was the easiest way to look like a man.

Date night! It was my turn to go with Elody. 

Monday Moments #46 ~ Here we go again

Week 46 out of 52.... We are coming to a close on the second year of my weekly posts. I think I will have to come up with a new plan for next year. Once again I have very little to share from this week. The girls have been staying busy with school, AWANA, girl scouts, and now a weekly practice for the Christmas Choir at church.

Last week the girls both got a hair cut. Camryn really wants to grow her hair long so she just got a much needed trim. Elody decided she was ready to go short again. Last year Elody got her hair cut fairly short and was NOT happy about it. She cried for hours. After growing it back out again she recently decided she was ready for a change. This is mainly because each morning we fight a mess of tangles and she usually ends up in tears. After almost a week of asking (I had to make sure she was serious) we went in and asked for the same haircut she hated last year. It isn't quite the same as last year, but it's still super cute.

Elody LOVES getting her hair fixed. The lady was just going to spray her hair but Elody asked to have it washed because she loved it. 

She smiled the whole time.

Unfortunately I totally forgot to take a picture after it was done. WHOOPS! And actually Camryn took the pictures at the salon. 

I already have a couple things planned to post next week and I will try to get a decent picture of the new haircut.