Christmas in Chicago

We headed on to Chicago after our nice visit in Michigan. We had a really good time there. Brianna really enjoys being at my mom's house because she has two cousins the exact same age as her. They have fun together. The whole Pedersen side
Brianna is not the only singer in the family...Alexis is practicing with her Uncle Scott!
Go State!
For those of you that know my mom this would not surprise you...but every year my mom is the children's director for all the grandkids as they attempt to act out the Christmas story in my parents very own living room. The three 3 years olds are usually the angels....probably because they are so angelic! The kids really have a great time doing it and it is always entertaining for the adults.

It snowed the day we were leaving to go home to Florida...this was my attempt to get the girls picture in the snow in Chicago!

Christmas In Michigan

We started the Holidays in Michigan to Paul's family. It took just a mere 25 hours to get there and once we did arrive we couldn't even make it up Mom Weinberg's 1/8 mile long driveway because our car only has rear-wheel drive. So we ended up carrying the girls at about 2am in the snow to the front door and Paul and I both had crocs on with no socks! It was a great way to start the holidays! Once we were warm inside the rest of the stay was nice. The best part was it did snow and it was very pleasant outside to take the girls sledding. Alexis enjoying her first taste of jello jigglers
All the grandkids


Grandma Weinberg enjoying her youngest and cutest:) grandkids!

Some more pictures from the Pageant

Getting her hair and makeup ready
My mom was so excited to see her. She watched her every night when she was here.
Some good friends of ours that came to see the pageant and of course...Brianna:)
Isn't she sweet!!
Singing up on that BIG stage.

Christmas in Fort Lauderdale

Well the month of December has been a little crazy for our family. We took the girls to see Santa at the end of Thanksgiving weekend. It didn't go as well as we thought. Neither one of the girls were excited to see Santa...Brianna finally did sit on his lap after we talked her into it but Alexis wanted no part of it. She screamed "no!" over and over again until we left the little Santa's village. So we decided to at least get their picture outside of Santa's village. Since that our family has been very involved with the Christmas pageant at our church. Paul is in it and Brianna is singing Happy Birthday Jesus. There are 19 perfomances and Brianna is singing at 11 of them. It has been an amazing experience so far...Brianna has been able to sing her heart out for Jesus. I am going to post more pictures once I download some more but here our a few. If you want check out the website for out church pageant....www.christmastickets.com Brianna in her dress when she sings
Brianna in her cowboy outfit that she wears in the children's song when she does not sing.

beautful pictures from the mountains....

The Kelletts and the Weinbergs on top


Brianna, Alexis, Eli and Marshall.....aren't they cute!
We took a trail to see this beautiful waterfall....it was really cold this day...so most of the time Alexis was crying..I guess she really is a Florida girl

Thanksgiving in the Smoky Mountains

We decided to take a family vacation to Gatlinburg the week of Thanksgiving. We did not have a traditional Thanksgiving dinner but being in the mountains was a good trade off. The girls had such a good time seeing all the fall colors and feeling the cool weather. We were able to see two families that have moved from Florida to Tennesee...it was great to catch up with them.
Gracie, Lindsay, Brianna and Alexis
Paul has grown a beard because he is in the Christmas Pageant at our church. I am not too sure I like it.

A trip to Orlando

I am a little behind...it is almost December and I am putting up a post from October..oh well....
Anyways we took a trip to Orlando with another family from our church who was so nice to share one of their condos with us. We had a wonderful time. They have three girls so Brianna had so much fun playing with the older girls. We went to Sea World for three days..where Brianna discovered a new friend in Shamu!! Then we ended the week going to Mickey's not so scary Halloween party. That was also fun...we had some other friends join us so we were at the park with 11 kids!! Just a little chaos!! It was fun and of course we got lots of candy!!