Yeah! A Washing Machine!

After visiting Santa, we came home and sprinkled reindeer food on the front lawn so Santa would know where we lived.



The next morning...what a suprise...Santa brought Lauren her washing machine!!! She washed everything that morning. All of her presents were dirty and she needed to wash them. Then, according to Lauren, we had to put the washing machine right next to Mommy's so we can both wash clothes!

Santa, I know him!!!!

We went to visit Santa and Lauren LOVED him! After a LONG wait in line, Lauren ran right up to Santa, sat in his lap and asked him for a washing machine (she has talked about nothing else for the last month). Strange request, we know! Then she hopped down and enjoyed the train ride just as much! A fun evening for Lauren!

Happy 80th Birthday Grandma Govig!

Our plan for the weekend was to help Grandma Govig celebrate her 80th birthday on Saturday...but we were snowed in and couldn't make it. What a bummer! After an interesting drive from Sioux Center to Sioux City, we finally made it to see Grandma on Sunday! Yeah!!!

Lauren displaying her beautiful new jewels from cousin Gabby, Aunt Renee, and Uncle Michael!

Lauren and Gabby hadn't seen each other for so long and loved playing dress up together, talking about the latest news in 3-year old land, and lots of giggles! It was so much fun to see beautiful Gabby!

Christmas with the Govig's

We had our Govig Christmas at Ryan, Tiffany, and Kyler's house in Sioux Center this past weekend. We all safely arrived on Friday night to find that we were all snowed in Saturday morning. They had received 10 inches of snow and the wind drifted the roads in and there were times that you couldn't even see to the street! But we finally were able to have our "Govig Forced Family Fun Weekend"! We had a great time playing games, watching movies, and just spending good family time together.





The 3 Govig kids with our 3 kids: Rachel & Micah, Melanie & Lauren, and Ryan & Kyler.

The 3 cousins had so much fun playing with all their new toys!

Happy 3rd Birthday Lauren!!!

It is amazing to see how much our little girl has changed. Here she is almost 3 years ago.



Lauren loved the new dollhouse from Daddy & Mommy! She has spent hours already putting every piece of furniture and every family member in their right spot (Mommy loves to play with it too!!)



Oh, the excitement as she peeked inside the dollhouse!





She loves the Little Mermaid absolutely loved her Birthday Cake!

Helping Aunt Ann pick out her tree

Let's make cookies Mama!

Lauren wanted to make cookies today, so she got out the bowl, her spoon, put her apron on and was ready to go!



Melanie--What kind of cookies do you want to make? Lauren--Sugar ones. I LOVE sugar, Mama!