Sophia made a Gingerbread House

We are having tons of fun this Christmas! One of the fun things that we have done is make a gingerbread house...here is the result:
Making the frosting

decorating the house

decorating the house some more(in between licking the frosting off her fingers!)

finished product...

Florida 2008

So we went to Florida in January to visit Andy. We had a wonderful time even though it was a quick turnaround trip. We took the red eye on Thursday the 17th and an early 7 am flight coming back home so we could go to work on Monday.

Sophia's wild hair was after a 5 hour red eye flight plus another long nap! Dakota and Sophia got along great. They are the perfect size for each other!
Christian, Sophia and I went to meet up with Christian's long time friend Stephen and his family. They only live about 3 hours away from Andy. What are the chances of that? Steven and his family were so nice and we had a wonderful time visiting with them.

We went to Chuck E. Cheese for an afternoon of games. Andy and Christian pretended to be firefighters when they were playing one of the games! Andy was teaching Soph the ropes of firefighting and she of coursed loved being right in the middle of everything!

Andy took us to Butterfly World. You can tell by the look on Sophia's face that she was bursting at the seams with excitement! It was so amazing to see all the beautiful butterflies flying around(even though Andy said that there were not that many butterflies that day since it was cold outside...for Florida that is...)

Thank you Andy for having us at your house and taking care of us that weekend. We love you, miss you, and can't wait to see you again!

It's been a long time coming...

I know I know, I haven't posted anything since Halloween! It has been way too long! So much has gone on since then. Where do I begin?? I guess I'll start with Christmas and go from there...
Sophia at her Oma's house playing with some of her new toys...
My nieces Olivia and Penelope
Me, Christian and Sophia
Sophia in her beautiful Red Christmas dress and her sweater that Cousin Kaylee gave her