Happy Birthday Dear Halle

Happy Birthday Sweet girl! We love you so much! Halle loves birthdays so much, and hers just happens to fall right on Christmas day. She thinks that sharing her birthday with the birth of Jesus is so special, that will probably change someday, but we hope to always make it a special day for her. She loves birthdays so much and couldn't wait for hers. For the last 3 weeks the bedtime song of choice was "Happy birthday" and when we would get to the "dear Halle" part she would get a huge grin on her face. We are thankful that we have friends that wanted to party with us on Christmas evening, it meant a lot to us and especially Halle. She loved her castle cake (ha ha the joke between Chase and I was that it looked like a project that my nieces Brianna age 8 and Emily age 6 would have done a better job at:) Halle got a Cinderella scooter to cruise on when the weather warms up. I can't believe you are three years old Halle and such a big girl, could you slow down on the growing up??? please!

Merry Christmas!

Here is a picture of the kids at Tanners wedding. We could not find our camera before church started to snap a pic of the kids in their christmas outfits (we might have to try and recreate the moment this Sunday:)

Halle has been so into dress ups lately. Whenever it is time for me to pick her up from a friends house she usually has some sort of dress up on. So I searched around for some dress ups and was so discouraged at the $20 a pop dresses at Target and everywhere else...so if you need dress ups heres what I did. I went to Toys R Us the day after Thanksgiving (Thanks for calling me Becky...I would have liked to have waited longer for them to go even cheaper, but if I would have waited they would have been gone) and got the $12.99 dresses for 50% off...$6.50/dress. I bought 5 of them so my total was $32, but they gave me a $10 gift card for buying that many costumes that day, so I pretty much got them all for $22! She loves them, and we have officially changed her dresses/shoes 400 times since Christmas morning:)

Tyler was so pumped to get a "video game" for Christmas. Our version of a video game is a leapster leapfrog. He has loved it so much, we are going to have to set some rules about how much he gets to play it. I was watching him play it and he started rolling his neck like it was sore:)

The kids had a good time playing in Tylers new tent from gma and gpa pearson. Halle got a tinkerbell lantern from her aunt chloe, and had a good time playing with it and other toys in the tent. It took up pretty much the whole basement, and I promise we let them out when they wanted, their faces look all smashed up against the door:)