santa and pepper

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i still have tons of cute pics on flickr that i need to talk about. when we went to see santa at the bass pro shop, someone was there with there dog, so of course the girls said we needed to bring pepper and of course we did! as soon as we got there it was raining and pepper got wet, and when we walked in santa had jsut left on his lunch break for an hour! and of course, i had forgotten her leash (thought we'd be in and out) so while the girls did the other activites, color pages and frosted cookies, ect....i got to carry around a stinky wet dog....every time i set her down, she took off, typical...and she even got so excited when someone reached down to pet her, she peed on the floor, typical.....but in the end, it was all worth it for the girls to get their picture!

(someone the other day looked surprised when i said that i let the girls pick out their own clothes....really?... you thought i did this)

TOMS BIRTHDAY WEEKEND!
this last weekend was toms bday weekend! starting friday: i got up and did school with the girls and tom got to sleep in. when he was up and ready he said he wanted to take the girls out. they left at 11 and went to frozen yogurt, burger king, i don't know what else, but they were gone for 4 hours, i cleaned the whole house, it felt so good! then when they came home shreya invited them to go out to stevie Bs for pizza, so i took them over there while i went grocery shopping. they got home at 7 and fell asleep as soon as their head hit the pillow!
saturday was tom's bday. me and the girlys got up and made biscuits and gravy and eggs. then we went to the girl's cheer game, then we went to see chipwrecked, then we went mexican for lunch, then back home to pick up pepper and straight out again to the park. then home at for ice cream and cookies. the girls got tom an angry bird stuffed animal, they have been begging me to get him since xmas....i've been saying no, but when the clairs here went out of business and they were 75% off, i finally caved....and they got him double stuffed oreos....he was happy. they are glad he has a stuffed animal to sleep with at night now....i just didn't seem right for him to sleep with out anything.....
on sunday i made tom his birthday dinner and deseret. the dinner he picked was cannolones from Uraguay and they were sooo yummy! the deseret was a flop, but at least i had ice cream and those double stuffed oreos!
it was a fun weekend! tom said it was the best birthday he's ever had!
oh and the girls made him the cutest cards with pictures of them and him that they drew and halle wrote, "dada, i love you. U R the best." and then she spelled it all out for kiki to write on her card!

ps. the girls have 2 "black babies" and 2 "blond babies" they each have one of each and have been carriying them everywhere for a few weeks now. to the movies, to church, strollers for walks, in the car, buckled up. its so cute! kiera's black baby is even named Kizzy...isn't that the baby from roots? made me laugh....they are the baby alive brand that drink and pee...what more could a kid want!?!