Here are the pictures to go with the Christmas at the Schloemp's story.
They seem so sweet and loving!
The cousins, wow every one is getting so big!
Great minds think alike, Cindy and uncle Andy go the same gifts for the big girls.
Princess!!!!
She is yet to take this dress off, she absolutely loves it!
These are all the pics I can get up right now, stupid computer, so I will get he rest up later.
Yes, I do realize these are coming a little late, but if you want to see what it's like to have Christmas with the Schloemp's it will just have to be okay!
Here is the Schloemp Christmas story. The chaos starts on Christmas Eve with my family and continues on Christmas day with my extended family and ends the day with Stefan's family. Let me start with my family, it was so much fun. First the kids get to open their presents. As we all know kids do better in the afternoon then after a long church service and dinner so we changed it up and they went first before any thing. As you can imagine no one was thrilled to leave the toys to go to the Christmas Eve service except the mom's. But we did and they got over it. After the service we returned to an old favorite family tradition we haven't done since before kaylin was born, we went out to eat for Christmas eve dinner, it was the best chicken enchiladas I have ever put in my mouth, YUM!!!!! Finally, or we thought finally we went to my parents to put kids to bed and have our own grown up Christmas. I say we thought finally because just as we started opening my niece, Makayla started crying. She had thrown up and she is a bit dramatic and like any of us girlie girls, she does not like to throw up much less have it on her. After the 30 minute clean up we continued, however every time it was her mom or dad's turn she would throw up again. you are probably thinking "what fun!" well sort of, especially because we were together and we all felt so bad for her, my sister, who was having to deal with all of this. Any way, two hours later we finished and every one went home to get ready for the THE event, Christmas morning!
Christmas morning was fun, dramatic, and stressful, like any holiday involving new toys and two little girls, one of which who decided this year she is going to become possessive of her toys. Stefan say relaxing in his massage chair, which I got him, with his hand held massager in one hand and a Red Bull in the other, yes he was so much help as the fights raged on all around his calm self. Going to my aunt's we were an hour late, but it was a lot of fun. we ate and promptly had to go to the next event, my mother-in-law's house.
Christmas at Angie's is a sight. She sets the table with a delicious pot roast dinner with green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, and bread; don't you love our non traditional dinners, I love them! But before any one can enjoy this great meal the kids are begging to open presents, as if none of them haven't already open a million presents. Like any good parent we give in and the craziness begins, paper is flying every where and kids are screaming with delight. It is so unlike the calm, one at a time manner of opening presents that exists at my parents, it is total chaos as every one opens what ever they are handed as soon as they have their hands on it. I hate it because not only do I not get to see what they are getting I have no idea who it is from.
FINALLY, they day is over and I am so glad because the excitement of Christmas coming is so sweet and the day it self is long, and disappointing because it is almost over. When we got home i could not believe all the toys my kids got, it was insane, and half of it had already be opened and put into rooms, for protection from the other of course. Looking at their piles of toys I thought where are we going to put all this stuff, we seriously don't have the space, so like a good mom I put half of it up and they each get a new toy every month for the rest of the year, crazy!
Our Christmas was great and fun and I hope yours was to, enjoy the pictures, they will be on the next post; this one is too long as it is!!
My little girl is the most beautiful Ballerina! For Kaylin's winter recital her teacher decided to make it an out reach and dance at a retirement home. It was a great idea and really blessed the residents. I say Kaylin is the best ballerina because she didn't do her tap dance. Kaylin is a talented dancer but performing is a little harder, it has to be her idea. The tap dance wasn't so she didn't. It's not that she didn't like the dance, it's that her tap class was first class out and she was not ready yet. By the time it was her classes turn to do their ballet dance she was ready and was breath taking, but let the pictures speak for them selves.
Look at her technique, she is so beautiful!
Ready, set, dance.
Kaylin, with the girls in her class.
It's official, we have entered the CRAZY boy crazy world! My 4 going on 12 year old daughter has her first crush and I as her mother am not sure how I feel about this. Part of me is so excited, part of me is horrified that my almost 5 year old daughter has a crush, and part of me is at a total loss as to what to say, think, or do. Let me give you a sample of recent conversations;
Me: How do you want to do your hair today? Do you want a pony tail?
Kaylin: Yes, cause then Johnathan will think I am pretty!
Another day getting ready for school,
Me: Why don't you wear this shirt? (a shirt with a collar on it)
kaylin: No, I can't wear this shirt, Johnathan won't know me in this shirt, he won't like me in it.
We have actually had the shirt conversation more than once, in fact at least once a week. We have had it so much that Daddy is having a conversation tonight about girls who dress to impress boys and being independent and unique, that should be good.
This morning Kaylin informed me she was going to marry Johnathan at recess because and I quote " he's cute and he thinks I'm pretty and we are going to get married." AGHH, what is a mother to think, to say, to do!! I silently laugh and cry all at the same time. The icing on the cake was a conversation between Me, kaylin, and Chloe on the way to school this morning, and you guessed it, it was about Our favorite little boy.
Kaylin: Chloe, I'm going to marry Johnathan at recess today.
Chloe: No, I'm going to marry Johnathan today!
kaylin: We can both marry him because he is cute and he thinks, we are both pretty!
Me: You girls are both too young to be marrying any one!!
Kaylin: (whispering) My mom is so crazy!
Me: You are DEFINITELY too young to say I am crazy, you can't say that until you are a teenager.
At thins point I am laughing so hard on the inside because she sounds like a teenager saying I am crazy. The sad thing is there will be a day when she really will think I am crazy and these conversations will be for real. For now it so cute seeing here pretend to be so sophisticated and mature; talking about boys and her crazy mom.
Halloween is such a fun time to dress up and getting candy on end. It is also the best night in the whole year for seeing princesses and super heroes every where you look, my girls were no exception. I had a Tinker Bell and a Butterfly Fairy; they were simply adorable!! At Kaylin's school they had a carnival, Festival 31, it was huge, so crowded, but the girls had fun. They played games, jumped in bounce houses, and ate yummy hot dogs.
Aren't we the best looking mimes you have ever seen? I gotta say this was totally Stefan's idea and it was so much fun. We had fun getting ready and freaking people out on the way in the car, you should have seen the looks we got, it was great!
Okay, so I finally got a new cell phone,YEA! For those of you who have talked to me on my old phone, you know how happy a day this is for me. It is so cool; it has a mp3 player, FM tuner, camera, and even a pedometer (what ever that is for, walking or something). I even got a much coveted bluetooth for FREE, yes, the phone and the bluetooth were FREE, could it be any better that that. I got a cool phone with awesome features and it was FREE! Did I say it was FREE, I love free stuff. Any way it came in the mail and I ripped into it like a kid on Christmas morning to start playing, big mistake. There is a reason I usually opt for the basic phone, they usually don't tick me off. As I began trying to figure things out I was quickly reminded why I hate technology, it is complicated and no one can make simple easy to follow directions that actually work. At one point I was as mad at this, my new FREE phone, as I am at the old one (which will get a slow painful death), it was pathetic. Of course being a man, because they have some technology gene in there DNA, Stefan came in and fixed what took me an hour to figure out in mere minutes, I hate it!!
As for the mentioned death to the old phone, Stefan and I talked about how healing it would be to physically destroy these phones that have given us such hell for the last month. Stefan decided to run over his phone but that is far too quick of a death for me, oh no, my phone will suffer and it will hurt. As I told my sister the plan she asked me, "You realize the phone can't really feel, right?" I guess my plan does sound sinister but it will make me feel soooo good that I can't wait to do it tomorrow after church. My phone has a death sentence that will be slowly and painfully delivered. AHH revenge, it is sweet, even if it is against a piece of stupid technology. Tomorrow I will have pictures of the cell phone death. I realize this talk about slowly killing my phone and being excited makes me sound crazy, but there is a small part of me that is taking out so many things on this poor phone. But hey, it ticked me off, and besides, it doesn't know any different, and I can take my frustrations out on it, it will be great!! Stay tuned for great pics tomorrow.
Alyssa is so close to being able to do a flip, but for now she loves looking through her legs.
I love my little mermaids, they are so cute.
My ballerina in training, her favorite thing is to put on "ballet" and dance to Wiggles.
How can you not think she is the cutest thing ever, and those pig tails re getting so long.
