Tree time

This is the "girls" tree... They get to decorate it all by themselves. It has all the dragonfly ornaments on it and one that has zoeys name on it.. And ofcourse candycanes.. That have now (four day later) been broken and only 2 survived.

Eva got to put the star on the top of the tree.

Art work

Last month we decided to make the doors to the office Eva and Kia's Canvas... We hang all their art work for the month up on these two doors.. Then at the end of the month it all comes down and we choose one piece from both girls to save.. They had a blast with all the turkey making last month.. I have no idea what we will do for this month.. Lots of trees I guess!!

Thanksgiving.

We went to Grandma's for thanksgiving over in Tillamook.. This is what we did while the turkey was cooking. We bundled the girls up and headed to the beach. It had stopped raining right when we got there. But then started to dizzle just a bit. But the girls did not care at all.

The first beach was a little small due to the high tide. So we decided to head up to Ocean side (I think) and check that beach out.

This beach was a lot bigger. Todd decided to venture into the tunnel to check it out. It really is a pretty cool tunnel to go into to get to the other beach on the other side of that mt. you see to your right.

Eva and I had a ton of fun running down to the waters edge and then standing there and waiting for a big wave to come and then we would start running to get out of its way.. She LOVED that.. We never let the water get us.. But what fun is it with out getting a little wet.. In the parking lot Eva fell right into a mud puddle that was about 5 inches deep.. soaked her entire bottom half. Too funny!!

We had a great thanksgiving day. We got to visit with my brother matt also. Then it was home that night to get ready for Black Friday shopping!! And yes I survived Walmart at 4am!! boy are there some crazy people out there.

Turkey Day... Comin up..

My friend Kirstin sent me this link on how to make turkey's out of oreo's... So I picked up all the stuff today to make them. My friend Tina came over to have lunch and a play date.. Needless to say,, she did not know we were about to try the impossible!! Having candy out and having the kiddo's help us with these.. Hmmm... I would have to say this might be a craft for more like 4 or 5 year olds... But they can get the "feathers" on by themselves, but everything else they needed a little help with.. Ian and Eva made one, then they were all pretty much shoveling as much candy in their mouths as they could.. :) Tina and I did the rest of them..

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.. Have a safe holiday!
Love, The Brandon's

Kiara's cake..

This was not the easiest cake to do!! It took forever to complete!! But when Kia came through the door and saw the horses in the corral.. it made all the hard work worth it.. All she wanted to do was eat cake!! forget the party.. Eat cake!! LOL

Kia's Birthday

Kiara turned 2 this week. Her party was a horse theme. We played one game.. Pin the horse in the corral.. Todd made them game for me.!! We printed up all the decorations and glittered them all up. :)

Kia and her horse cupcake.

She was just dying to get a hold of the horse and eat it!!

She enjoyed opening her gifts this year. She got plenty of horses.. and Bell and Bell's horse!!

Kiara had a great time.. She did not take a nap all day and she actually stayed up till bedtime!!

Kia's big birthday surprise

Daddy's surprise for Kia

Todd arranged for us to go and meet "Dee" for Kiara's birthday. This horse belongs to one of Todd's co-workers. Her name is Tanya and her daughter Kayla actaully is the rider of the horse, and her son also rides. They were all super nice to let us come out and get to know Dee.

We had stopped and picked up two carrots (we were not sure if we would be able to feed the horses) but Tanya had brought a huge bag of carrots with her.. so the girls were set for feeding all the horses.

It is such a beautiful day today.. it was the perfect day to go out and meet the horses.

Daddy's surprise for Kia

It was time to groom the horse.. Both girls got to brush "Dee" out.

I was watching Kia like a hawk.. It made me a little nervous, ok it made me a lot nervous for her to be so close to the horse and down low.. but this horse is really, really old.. And after awhile I relaxed a bit.. Kia and Eva did great.

Both girls enjoyed feeding the "Dee"

Daddy's surprise for Kia

Eva got to hop on first just so we could see how it went. She did great. We just stood back and watched.. She was in heaven!