WOW! What a weekend.

We had one of the best weekends ever! It started Thursday night with the Whitmers, we went to the Darius Rucker and Rascal Flat concert in Sioux City. Darius AKA Hootie Rocked the house! Then Friday we had the Clausen Christmas..yes in Feb. this winter has been so crazy with the weather that this was the first weekend that worked. Mother Sharon still had the christmas decor up to make it feel like Christmas. The girls didn't care what month it was they just loved the presents. Well Cora loved the tissue paper and boxes:) Then we got to see Baby Max Breyfogle. Well my girls smothered him with Kisses. They are kind of aggresive lovers. We got to see Karlen play volleyball on Saturday. I do have to say she is a good little athlete and I am excited to watch her in high school:) Saturday night I had a lot of good laughs with Meghann, Angie, Katie and my fam. Needless to say we are a little tired:)We had pretty good seats we were just a few rows up on the side. so with the power of zoom I got some good pics.

My little girls in their new outfits for the party:) They are getting so big!!Cora has a new wink face:) She has been doing this cute little face a lot lately. She still is crazy as ever climbing and making monster sounds:)All of the Clausen Cousins! Chad got a new Shirt for christmas, you will recognize this if you have seen the movie Hangover, Carlos:)The girl cousins at Karlen's volleyball game and at the GHS dance night with Courtnie. Kendal was star struck with her! She didn't want to let go of her:)

This is the girls tonight playing dress up with some of the new dress up clothes they got from Maura

Emily's Reception

This was our attempt at a Family pic at the wedding.  We had a good time and the girls loved the dance floor! It was great to see alot of people we have not seen in awhile and it was even more exciting to be there for Emily and Cory's exciting news of baby #2 on the way!! We knew that Kendal would love the dance floor but had no idea how much Cora would love it too:)This is how wore out Cora was:) She didn't move while I put her in her PJ's. She was spent, good thing we don't shake oru booty every weeekend:)

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A day full of LOVE and SNOW..again:)

Kendal had her first Date night with her Daddy on Saturday! They went to a musical in town. Kendal was being a complete goofball making funny faces so we had some good laughs taking pics before their big night out on the town.  She was pretty sleepy b/c Friday night they spent the night with Joy, Chad's secretary.

The apple doesn't fall to far from the tree:) I am constantly cleaning and I think Cora has beein observing this b/c she has discovered a new enjoyment of helping her mamma keep everything clean.  I promise I am not forcing this labor on her:) She cracks me up! She is on busy girl so we are just puting it to good use:)

Oh you work it girl! Happy Valentines's Day!

Winter Fun

What a past few weekends we have had! Last weekend was Winter games in Okoboji. We stayed at Village West and took the girls swimming. The Johnsons joined us for some swimming fun:) This winter has been a bit depressing with all of the snow and cold weathe it makes it kind of hard to get out of the house..so needless to say we have been playing alot of dress up and watching a lot of movies. This past weekend we went to Minneapolis with the Whitmer's so the Daddy's could get some Cont. Ed.  We stayed at the waterpark by the Mall of America and had a great time.  Meghann and I braved it and took the kids by ourselves to the Mall of AMerica one day.  All went well except for little Luke broke out in hives that gave us a scare. thank goodness we were close to a store with Benadryl.  We got to celebrate Meghann's big 31st B-day in the water park where we stayed. As close to a beach as we could get... someday:)  We spend the next few days swimming in the water park and shopping. This is our little Diva Kendal posing in one her dresses from her cousin Karlen.Pig tails fit Cora perfectly! She has horns this little girl is crazy! We call her monster and she makes a monster sound:) She climbs everything then she will throw and destruct anything that gets in her way. She keeps me on my toes!Cora and Daddy swimming at Village West. She is a little fish and loves the water. Addison and Kendal thought they were pretty cool since they could touch in the big water.  They are big girls now and they can do it by their big self!Fireworks at the Okoboji Winter games. We had a good spot by Arnold Park to watch them from the car.The girls like to sit in the ottoman with all of the blankets to watch their movies on the cold winter days!

Cora pointing at all the fish in the Aquarium at the Mall of America.The girls looking at all of the fish swim over top of us at the aquarium.  We got to see sharks, sting rays, Nemo and turtles!Kendal being a goof ball at dinner. We ate at the rainforest cafe in the Mall of America. Next we hit the Amusement park where we got see Dora and Boots!

The girls waiting to ride the Merry go Round with their DadsHaving fun in the Mall of America!

This explains how everyone felt after a long day of playing adn shopping.  This was the bunk beds we had in our hotel room! The girls loved it! Kendal slept in the top bunk every night. She did great on the other hand mommy got a little nervous and woke up every time I heard her move!Getting ready to check out of the hotel to head home back to Iowa. What a fun weekend the girls were soo tired! I don't think I have seen Cora sit still for that long:)

Sending everyone a big Smooch from the Niemeiers!!