Busy Season Has Begun

I'm convinced that Busy Season started earlier than usual this year. It never is easy, and the first week is the worst, but we will prevail! Here's to hoping Greg chooses not to stay in Public Accounting all of his days ... 

We helped my sister move. This picture almost made it worth it.

Sof traveling in style. 

We braved a bike ride and I'm pretty sure I couldn't feel my fingers by the time we got back home.

This is my reality. Please pray for me.

I'm going to leave this right here so that I can remember she is super cute even on the days where I want to drive her to the middle of nowhere and leave her for dead.

Perfect form!

At the end of the day, they do love each other.

Oh Claire 🤣

I love everything about this picture:
- This girl!
- Her cowgirl boots
- the pure joy on her face
- the fact that she still so easily fits in the baby swings
- and the fact that she doesn't care!

Greg's new office makes eating lunch with him that much better! No more awkward small talk with other accountants.

Claire is getting her weekly Root Beer fix. And let's take a moment to appreciate her nearly perfect palm tree pony tail.

Proof Claire can be nice to her sister.

Busy Season is for projects! Claire's shelf went in a lot faster than Sofi's. 

Lately Sofi is really into building forts and sleeping in them. I have no idea how she was able to sleep with this blanket barely 4" above her face all night, but she did and was very cheerful the next day.

I have yet to figure out why Claire thinks it's okay to walk outside without her winter clothes.

Child labor at its finest.

End of Year Fun

 We got some good snow ON CHRISTMAS! It was exciting, and we played in it for just a bit, just to say we went outside.

Here is our dearest Clairey babe drinking out of the ditch. Not the first time, might I add. I'm tired of telling her not to do it, so if she gets a worm, that's on her.

Sofi and her Daddy made the cutest snowman ever!

 

Some cute pictures I got of the girls one day at the park.

 

My family crashed with us for a night.

And it was fun to have them visit.

We went to the trampoline house one night with the girls. They had a lot of fun! I love watching Claire run around on tramps. Her little legs look like they're moving so fast.

Before we left, Sofi gave her daddy a makeover.

Greg kept telling me he was getting weird looks. Turns out people were noticing his blue eye shadow 🤣

Christmas Day

Per tradition, Greg lit a fire on Christmas morning. He also had 3 humidifiers going so we wouldn't get sick like last year :).

You can imagine how excited the girls were to see presents. We went the whole month without putting a single one under the tree. It was pretty magical.

Claire slept in until about 8:30 (unheard of for her), and Sof was so good at patiently playing on my phone while I lay in bed like a slug.

Once Claire woke up, she was ready to go!

It was such a fun morning! I am laughing seeing Claire stare straight up at the tree. I often say that I wonder what is going on inside her little brain. 

Santa also left the girls a present in the basement.

All Sof wanted was some Frozen headphones and was so excited when she saw that Santa remembered!!

It was a fun day together! We were all really spoiled.

Christmas Eve Fun

We had another fun Christmas Eve at the Spjute home. Sofi loved being Mary (again), she took care of the talent portion for us by doing her high-pitched whistle, and had so much fun running around and caroling with her cousins. I love that Sofi can take care of herself, because I'm usually running around after Claire like a crazy person. You have no idea how many times I've contemplated getting that girl a leash.

And I mention this because that's exactly what I did while everyone else was Caroling. I was in the back chasing Claire by preventing her from running pell mell down the hill of death that Greg grew up on. Claire was not pleased. Luckily for us both, I'm bigger than her (for now).

Can you spy Sofi, Max and Sam?

The best part of the day was watching the Girls open their Christmas jammies. Sofi was absolutely adorable and Claire was not pleased with the nightgown I had frantically shopped for her earlier that day. 2 year olds guys, am I right?

I got Christmas jammies too!!

I mean, how cute is she?!

Just know that Claire was perfectly content to wear her regular panda jammies. Oh Claire.