Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and a lost tooth!

we had a wonderful christmas this year - the girls started the week of christmas off spending some alone time with their grandparents in ft. wayne. this was intended to be a fun time for the girls and a nice break for their parents. :)

instead, adam and i decided to switch around all of our bedrooms as a surprise for the girls for christmas. it was so much more work than we anticipated! when they were brought home on christmas eve by my parents and kev, they found this: (their doors are really not this close together - i just combined the pics)
we told alaina she couldn't wake us up until 7am on christmas morning, and of course, at 7:01 alaina woke us up with cami in tow. here are a couple pics from christmas morning:

(cami just LOVES moons - she always yells "there's my friend the moon!" every time she sees it)

(need i say anything?)

for new year's eve, we spent the evening (and early morning hours!) with some friends - there were 4 couples and 8 kiddos - you'd think it was crazy, but the kids played in the playroom until 11pm and the adults hung out catching up and playing games. here's a picture of alaina, cami and emily in our lame attempt to get the kids to calm down earlier in the night.

alaina started school again on tuesday after more than 2 weeks off. when i picked her up she was telling me that her tooth was getting really loose! so she ate an apple as a snack when we got home - only she took just 3 bites before her tooth starting lodging itself loose and bleeding. after both of us freaked out for about 5 minutes, we composed ourselves and alaina decided she'd just try to pull it out. bam! it popped right out!

and of course cami wanted to show me her teeth too. :)

we're ready for 2009. adam's training again for the mini marathon in may, i've already given up, and the girls are fighting like teenage sisters already. is it 2010 yet?