The Princesses are having a sleep over in Princess A's bed.
They wanted to have a 'real one' where they get to sleep all night together. Tonight seemed the night to do it. They have quite the collections of stuffed animals and babies to sleep with them.
After a lot of giggles they marched into my room with Candy Cane lotion. They both wanted to mix their lotion with the lotion Santa brought me to make their hands 'super soft.'
In the few minutes it took to unload the car they were in the snow.
Princess G had fun until her legs got wet. 
Then we finally painted our salt dough ornaments we made earlier.
I made sure they had the same amounts and shapes but Princess G painted a little faster, even after repainting half of them. (We where halfway done when I remembered to get out the paint glitter.) Princess A gave some of her ornaments to her sister and I to paint. I painted Santa, a heart, a Scottie dog and an Easter cross for her.
They both really liked it and I remember my Mom making the same for me when I was little.
We also made more gingerbread cookies (a different and stickier recipe) and molasses cookies (my grandmother's recipes) for Santa.
Soon after Daddy got home the ornaments were dry enough for the tree.
Princess A's favorite (besides the Santa I made her) is this flower.
Princess G's favorite was her 'Sparkles Unicorn."
Soon it was time for bed so we set out the cookies we made that day (molasses and gingerbread), a glass of milk with ice (Santa likes it really cold), and gifts Princess A made for Santa, a book and a candy cane ornament.
This time I remembered to get out the sand toys to play with.
Princess A is using a Frisbee to smooth out her snow castle/hill.
Here the Princesses are on top of the Snow Castle/Hill.
My darling husband having fun (not!!) shoveling the snow.
Ultimate Party Meatballs
This was right before Christmas and during a visit from my husband's army buddy Uncle Tommy. The guys were watching football and down came the Princesses with paper dolls. Of course Daddy started to play with them (and watch football) but his doll (Ariel) is a ninja Princess that can do flips and battle bad guys.
The girls and I made salt dough ornaments yesterday. They both had so much fun deciding which cookie cutters to use. Notice we have unicorns, scottie dogs, bones and palm trees since those are "Christmasy Mommy!". The girls made the first batch but got a little bored when I was rolling the dough for the second batch (it was very stiff!). We are planning on painting them later today or tomorrow.
The only way I can get the girls inside after playing in the snow is to promise hot cocoa.
After we pull off all of the layers the first thing they ask is "Can we have Hot Cocoa? Can we have Hot Cocoa! Can we have Hot Cocoa?" They almost chant this as I heat it up. Today they also had some yummy Gingerbread Men to snack on! 
The Princesses were having fun playing with the cookie cutter while Mommy tried rolling out the dough I had chilled overnight, it was very stiff!!
Even though I do have a gingerbread man cookie cutter they wanted to make all of the other Christmas shapes.
Princess G is making a Christmas tree and Princess A is making a Santa.
The Princesses took off to play while the first batch was cooking so I used the second batch to make gingerbread men. We were going to decorate them today but as there are only three or four cookies left I think we will have to make more another day to decorate. 
Today was yet another snow day. More storms are expected so I doubt we will be going any where for a few days.
Uncle Tommy was sweet enough to shovel our driveway and sidewalk. Of course he didn't know we had a snow shovel and since I was watching the girls so much I didn't notice he was using our regular shovel.
The Princesses are making a snow castle. We went in right after this picture, the temps are about 25 degrees so I didn't want the girls out too long.
The girls are playing Mario as we wait for Uncle Tommy to get here. Daddy went to pick him up from the airport. The flight was delayed almost 2 hours which was good because though my husband gave himself extra time to get to the airport it took him and extra hour and half longer than he anticipated. Now they are on their way here. Normally it about an hour drive but today it will take much longer. It is not looking so good for school tomorrow.
That is what my girls wanted for dessert, a bowl of snow with a candy cane in it. After that snack they were still hungry so I gave them some pumpkin bread and peppermint tea with lots of milk in it (more milk than tea.)
Here is Princess G enjoying snow!
She is all smiles after throwing it at me over and over, lucky it got smaller with each throw.
Here is the mini-snowman. 
The two Princesses are holding the Clara dolls Daddy just had to get them at the Nutcracker. Daddy is reading the Nutcracker story he also bought that day. 
Campaign for Clean Hands picked 3 videos for the finals. Of those three the videos the one with the most votes by December 12 wins a trip to Washington D.C. The Princesses' video is one of the three. I hope you will vote for them everyday and get everyone you know to vote for them too.
I am going to have a series of contests to encourage voting for the Princesses' video.
Listed below are the current contests, they all end December 12 midnight. One vote gets you one entry for one contest. So you have one entry to one contest per day per email. If you get your spouse, kids, family or friends to vote you can have an extra entry for each vote. You can use those entries in which ever contest you wish. I will be adding more contests as we head toward December 12. Keep checking for new contests and don't forget to vote everyday.
Barbie and the Diamond Castle DVD
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The girls loved smelling all of the trees.
Here is a picture of us in the rain.
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Here is my pile of stuff I need to sew.
Here they are all folded after I sewed them all. 
Princess A and Princess G are holding their wands they made right before the singing started.
Here they are with Princess A's favorite princess.
Snow White.
Princess G's second favorite princess.
The Princesses each with their favorite Princess.
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