Snowy Days!

We have SNOW! And more came last night! On Sunday Emi played outside with Daddy, Grammie and Uncle Justin...oh and Naomi too! They had fun building a snowman and sledding together.

Sledding buddies.

I like snow!

Throwing snowballs for Naomi.

Grammie and Naomi

Final touches to the snowman.

Snowy Wednesday morning!

Ready to go sledding again!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone! We had our first dinner of the New Year at Uncle Joe and Sonia's {as we have the past few years}. It was a fun evening with yummy food and drinks. Emi especially like the smoked salmon spread. After we were all stuffed with salad, turkey, ham, and baked veggies we everyone played Kinect Just Dance. Kenzi took a couple of her first steps as everyone was playing! It won't be long until she's walking :)

New Years at Uncle Joe and Auntie Sonia's

The littlest cousins...

Kenzi, Melanie and Emi, playing with Gung Gung and Po Po.

Story time with Auntie Natalie.

Auntie Jeanie and Emi sharing some salmon spread!

Christmas Day at Po Po and Gung Gung's

After we celebrated Christmas at our house we went to Po Po and Gung Gungs {after nap time} to celebrate some more!

Getting ready for presents but first we have to take pictures...

Kenzi us smiling in this one but not Emi and Melanie...

Emi has a fake smile, Melanie is looking good but Kenzi is...well...

Another fake smile from Emi and Kenzi is looking away...Melanie is probably wondering when this is going to end...

Close...

Okay we are done!  This is as good as it's going to get...

Kenzi decided she needed a piano break.

The 5 of us.

Our family

Po Po, Gung Gung and the kids!

Take two...

Now time for presents!  Emi was the expert this year...

Emi helping Kenzi unwrap gifts.  Kenzi got clothes, books and some toys too!

Emi got a sewing machine, games and clothes!

Po Po, Kenzi and Melanie...
Melanie got a sea horse glow worm, she's thinking about sharing it with Kenzi.

Everyone got great gifts and the kids were spoiled by Po Po, Gung Gung, and their aunties and uncles...Thank you everyone!  Merry Christmas!

Great Wolf Lodge

Erich usually has vacation days to spend with us over the holidays and this year we took a mini trip to Great Wolf Lodge. We'd never been before so it was something we were all looking forward to!

It snowed in the lobby 3 times a day!

Emi pressing her penny for a souvenir.

Kiss attack!

Emi wanted to check out the arcade...

Hello!

Emi's first arcade game!

Boppin' the ground hogs...

Tickets!

Next game...pull the lever = 100 tickets!

2nd pull = 5,000 tickets!

They kept coming...other kids came by and were in awww...
Emi didn't really know what was going on but the tickets kept coming and coming...

After the 5,000 tickets came out we had to take them over to the "ticket counting machine,"
 yah that took forever because there were 5,000 tickets...

Coloring at the Kid's Club.  This was a really fun room where they had coloring, games, books and other arts and crafts projects.

Playing Candy Land, so fun!

Little Wolf!

Hungry Wolf!

Wolf who is smiling because we asked her a few times...finally this is what we got...

The Family!

Happy, happy!

Emi's favorite thing to do was listen to the story time in the lobby.

Hanging out in the Kids Cabin.  There was a bunk bed on the other side,
 3 twin beds total and then a queen on the other side of the "cabin."  Next time we'll bring family!

Listening to story time.

Coloring in the lobby.

The wave pool was Emi's favorite this time.  I was surprised that
she was brave enough to go on the big slides all by herself!

All in all we had a great trip, however we did catch some bug or food poisoning...with in an hour after getting home Emi got sick, then Kenzi, me and Erich.  It was not a very fun 48 hours.  Thankfully we were all better by Christmas day!