Santa came to our house!!!

...but before we tell you about that, here is our first go at making cupcakes in our cool-bake oven. Thank you, Thank you! to our friends Dawn, Javon, and Cade for this very fun gift.

Chefs at the ready:

Batter is mixed and in the oven:

Erin's is finished baking...

...and so is Megan's:

The finished products:

After going to Christmas Eve Communion at church (our first time in big church and our first time taking communion), Daddy's family came to our house for our traditional sandwiches and presents. Our aunts don't get to come down from Atlanta much, and we don't get up their way much, either.

Then it was off to bed to go to sleep real fast so that Santa could come to our house.

We got pillows from Mommy and Daddy this morning, along with the things from Santa. They match the sheets on our bunk beds!!


Santa brought a scooter for us. Mommy says we'll get another one. Apparently, the second one the elves made was broken, and Santa wouldn't give us a broken toy.

We also got Rock Band!!! Erin specifically wanted this, every time she saw it in the stores, but Mommy said she couldn't have it. Santa decided to give it to us as a family present.

Merry Christmas from our house to yours!

We hope you got a Christmas card from us already, but we thought we'd share a few of the decorations that we have in our house.


Of course, we have a tree! This one is new to us this year. The old one got its plug smashed and was dangerous to use.


Here are a few of Daddy's nutcrackers and a nativity set. There's a new one from Hershey's next to Mickey. So many of the nutcrackers are falling apart, since we have to keep them out in the heat.



This is one of three calendars we're keeping to see how close we are to Christmas. This magnetic set was a gift from Grandma. We also have a felt tree with ornaments and a paper/stickers set with numbered stars to put in the sky over the nativity.

That's it for now. We hope you're as ready for Christmas as we are. Is it Christmas Eve yet?

Erin's dancing showcase

A few weeks ago, mommies and daddies were invited in for dance class. Here's a bit of what they saw.

Can anyone name this ballet position?

How 'bout this one?

Perhaps this will help?

Actually, it probably wasn't a position at all...

Our trip to Pennsylvania

Now that we're home and somewhat settled back in, we thought we'd share a few pictures from our trip.

We stayed overnight at the Red Roof Inn in Rocky Mount, NC on the way up. We we woke up Friday morning, we saw...SNOW!!!

(Daddy's car before he turned it on)

(The grass at the hotel)

We stopped and saw Chris, Sara, and Josiah Greenwood just outside of Washington, D.C., and then it was northward to Mama and Papa's house.

On the way there, we saw some signs we thought a friend of ours would enjoy, so we took some pictures:

One of the best parts of going to Pennsylvania is spending time with our cousin, Emily! She's older than us, but we play very well together, once she realizes that we're not little anymore, just like her.

Here we are before the snow all melted. See, Papa has a John Deere! It comes in handy during the winter, hauling firewood and clearing the driveway.

We spent just a little bit of time outside playing. It was too cold most of the time. This one's blurry, but Daddy isn't at fault this time. Just hard to keep up with us swinging these days. Changing shutter speed would take too much effort on Mommy's camera.

This is Bailey. You can see the tree in the background. We had Christmas time before Thanksgiving. We hear that Christmas still hasn't come yet, so we're just a little confused.

This was one of Mommy's favorite presents, Wii Music. What you see here is Mommy, Sam Yoder, Kim Yoder (posing as a younger version of cousin Emily Hartman), and Arie Yoder comprising a handbell choir. With lots of practice, they could ring a decent tune.

We'll post some of Erin's dance class stuff soon.