We are enjoying our time in the UP celebrating Christmas and spending time with family. Santa was good to the girls, he brought Megan an American Girl doll, bubble gum for her machine, a dry erase board and some other goodies. He brought the twins some "ickey ouse" toys (a hot dog dancer and race track) and a cd player with microphone and a big doll house that they need to wait to play with until we get back to our house.

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Sledding Fun

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Trip Down Memory Lane

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Christmas Preperations

We had a busy week and another coming up. Mike started his new job on Monday, he likes it so far just busy. He is going to have another busy week coming up with training out of town.
We have also been busy getting ready for the holidays.
Last Monday when i was gone to a conference in Lansing over night, he took the girls to the Tree Lighting Ceremony in downtown New Baltimore.
This Friday we celebrated Christmas a little early with our good friends Cristy and Mark and their baby Nathan. We haven't seen them in a while so it was really nice to catch up. The girls waited all week for Nathan to come over.
Saturday we made cut-out sugar cookies. We are waiting to decorate them until we get to the UP. The girls had a fun time but didn't last as long as I thought they would have.

Enjoy the pictures, I decided to do a slideshow since I was having so much trouble last week.

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Well, have been trying to post for a few days now - not sure why blogger is giving me such a hard time about uploading pictures lately.

We have been trying to get ready for Christmas in the Voakes house.

On Saturday we went to visit Santa at the mall. We went to the mall in Port Huron and can you believe that at 4:00 on Saturday afternoon there was no line. We only did a group shot with our own camera, we couldn't see paying $45 for individual pictures. We didn't have any criers this year. Although Annalyse wasn't the most excited she did visit hime but wasn't interested in sitting on his lap or giving him a hug (I think she was glad his lap was full from Meredith and Megan).

After the mall, we headed up to Lexington, a small twon a little past Port Huron. They were having an Old Fashioned Christmas Tree Lighting. There was a trolley ride, chestnuts roasting over an open fire, caroling, tree lighting, and Santa. The shops were also open late that night. It was a nice night and we had a lot of fun.





Sunday we went to the fire station for pancakes with Santa. All of the girls saw Santa again. Megan asked for bubble gum and the twins asked for "Ickey Ouse" (Mickey Mouse) toys. We then went home and took pictures for our Christmas card which should have made it to your mailbox, or if not they will shortly.

Well, I treid to upload more pictures AGAIN! but not working. Enjoy these ones!

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Last Wednesday, we decorated the Christmas tree. The girls had a lot of fun. I was re-reading the post from last year (tried to insert link from last year but didn't work, you will have to scroll the archieves to Dec 08)and it seems a lot similar, they still hung all of the ornaments up on the same branch and an ornament broke (although Mike didn't take any "Christmas Cheer" away this year.
Looking at the pictures, the girls look so much more grown up this year.










Planning on going to see Santa this weekend. All three girls are very excited, hopefully no one gets stage-fright!