I hope everyone had a nice Christmas! Our Christmas was a little different this year but still fun! We moved into our new house on Dec. 18 (Mike's birthday!). We absolutely love it!! The girls love having their own rooms again, and I can already tell that I am a much better cook in our new kitchen! Ha ha.
The girls were a huge help in packing up the house (in case you can't tell, I'm being sarcastic. We probably packed everything at least twice because as soon as I'd get things in a box, the girls would take them out!)
They had fun climbing in the empty tupperwares and boxes.
Elsie is pretty petite for her age, and the biggest problem with that is that some of her pants won't stay up! She came walking down the hall towards me, and her pants fell down to her ankles! It was pretty funny!
Spaghetti night at the Rabus household (don't worry...Mike and I kept our shirts on!)
Even though we had just moved, we still put our Christmas decorations up! Sophie was very excited about decorating the tree this year. She tended to put her ornaments all on the same branch. It was pretty cute.
Sophie with some of her Christmas presents.
We got to see something we don't usually get to see on Christmas in Oklahoma: snow!! We had the Blizzard of '09 on Christmas Eve. I was scheduled to work that night, and Mike was going to drive me because the roads were really bad. They actually closed down every highway in the metro area because of snow. We packed up the car with water, food, extra clothes and were headed to a neighbors' house to drop the kids off. That was the plan, but we got stuck in a snow drift about 2 houses down from our house. That's how bad the roads were!! 45 minutes later, Mike finally managed to dig us out and we returned home. So, I didn't make it in to work (along with most of the night shift) and those poor day nurses had to stay all night! I felt really bad for them! We took some pictures of the snow from our house.
You can see the snow drifts on our back porch.
The next morning...
Elsie was not fond of the fort that Mike dug in our front yard.
More random pictures..
My Grandma Ellie turned 80, so the girls and I flew out to Michigan to celebrate with her. My sister and her boys and my parents also came out. We crashed at my Uncle Dave's house (sorry again for the mess, Unc!).
Sophie and Micah had so much fun playing together!
Well, I've been praying that the girls would get Mike's perfect eyes, but God has other plans for Sophie (I'll keep praying for Elsie!!) We were told at an eye doctor appointment 6 months ago that Sophie is farsighted, but that her right eye is twice as farsighted as her left one. The doctor wanted to see her every 6 months, so I brought her back a couple of weeks ago. We had been a little concerned because it seemed like every now and then, Sophie's right eye would go a little cross-eyed, especially when focusing on something close up. The doctor said that it is inevitable that Sophie will need glasses, so she recommended that we get them now so that she can ease into wearing them. We agreed, especially after the doctor warned that without correction, Sophie could develop a lazy right eye. So, Sophie got her first pair of glasses yesterday!!! They are pink with a little heart on each side, and she looks just beautiful in them! We were worried about how we were going to get her to keep them on, but she's surprised us so far by wearing them most of yesterday afternoon and today! Hopefully that lasts. The other challenge is going to be keeping them away from Elsie!!!!! 
Speaking of Elsie....she's found several hiding places in our new house!
We babysat Hannah and Gehrig for a couple of days last week...it was fun but busy having 4 kids in the house instead of just 2!
Our 2 pig-tailed girls!!
