Glimpses of Christmas

Merry Christmas from our house to yours!  This has been a fun week for us as the kids are at the "magical age" for Christmas anticipation.  Here we are in our Christmas jammies before opening our gifts.  Notice Frisbee snuck into the scene hoping to get her share.  Oh and if we look tired, it's because the kids woke up at 3:30 AM to get their stocking - and not quietly I might add.  We had to shoo them back to bed TWICE before we decided it was an appropriate time to wake the grown-ups!  There will be more specific rules next year....

Goose was thrilled with her much desired bathrobe...

Spiderman takes aim at the tree with his cool crossbow...

Boo shows off her soon to be creative side...

And Jaybird displays his coveted Lego Star Wars (that's my boy).

And as a parting shot, the kids are now happily munching on this gingerbread house they decorated last Sat.  (It must taste like a dog treat as I keep sneaking pieces to Frisbee and she's loving it more than I am).

Happy new year everyone! 

'Tis the Seaon...

I can't believe how quickly December is going!  The kids are keeping me posted of the Christmas countdown and loving every second of anticipation.  We usually get our first snowfall around Halloween but this year it waited until December.  Four days ago we got our first inch and the kids played tirelessly as if we had a blizzard.  The next morning they were again out the door before 7:00 AM having heard we were supposed to wake up to 5 inches (which never showed up).  Third day the same and then today we made them stay inside until the afternoon since it was below zero degrees this morning, they acted like they were being punished. :)  What is it about kids being oblivious to the cold when they are having fun and why did I grow out of that?  Well pictured above is one of the snowmen built this week.  If you know Jaybird, it is only natural for a mutant, two headed snowman to be proudly displayed out front.  He also built a snowman and placed it's dismembered head on the hood of my van to make it appear that I crashed into him and knocked his snowman head off.  That boy.....

The other fun memory made was our trip to see Santa.  The 3 older kids really had no interest in going but since they were stuck with me while I took Boo, they finally decided to humor Santa with a conversation.   The talk afterward was how he wasn't as good as the Santa that usually comes because this guy wasn't fat, he spoke with a "fancy accent" and his beard wasn't real.  Picky, picky, picky!  To top it off, Boo was the one who wanted to come and she sat there on Santa's lap with nothing to say, no toy requests, nothing - go figure with that girl. 

Hope you are enjoying your Christmas season - fa la la la la...  you know the rest.