Oh What Fun It Is

We borrowed sleds from our neighbor friends to find out which sled the kids would like best (or if they would even enjoy it). Well, of course Drew jumped on the one that looked like a snowmobile -he's such a boy, loves anything that moves/has wheels! And Kelsey was just happy to sled! We are lucky that our front yard slopes just enough for the kids to get a fun ride - and they don't have to big of a hill to walk up to sled back down. They actually started using the front walk steps; it was just easier than to keep slipping/falling in the snow.

She eats snow like its a treat. Craig talked to her
about what colors of snow are safe:)

Snow Fun

Trying to get home from my dad's place Sunday...there was a multi-car accident 2 exits
ahead and they were diverting 3 lanes of traffic onto 1 off-ramp. Good thing we had left
over snacks from my brother's party in the truck and LOTS of movies to occupy the kids.

So as soon as we got out of that mess, we had to play in all the snow!

Helping mom brush off her car.

Can't believe how dark it was at 4:30

Just likes to fall in the snow

Hello December, My Old Friend

This year we are hosting Christmas. Since we weren't really in the spirit of the holiday last year, I am more than excited to decorate and put the tree up. We have most of the gifts bought but I haven't decided how the kids will react to wrapped gifts under the tree that aren't for them. Kelsey keeps saying, "Mom, it's Christmastime??" And hopefully we can get her to sing holiday tunes since she has a great memory and an affinity for performing!

We had a nice time visiting everyone on Thanksgiving. The kids are the only "little people" on my mom's side and Craig's family so their presence is requested quite often and they enjoy all the attention. There is even that uncle who digs in his pockets to give the kids money for their piggy banks! On Saturday Kelsey and I helped with Aunt Cassandra's baby shower. Kelsey was so content eating M&M's and watching Minnie Mouse on my phone, you hardly knew she was there. She helped open gifts, sang her favorite songs - twinkle, twinkle and ring around the rosy.

(I started this post a week ago and realize it is OLD! Sorry, just consider it an update!!)

My brother turned 30 this past Sunday, so his brother-in-laws through him a "Beer for Diapers" man-shower and then the ladies came later to celebrate his birthday. We went to my mom's house early Saturday morning and tried to see Santa at the town fire station. Thankfully it was also a pancake breakfast because they wanted no part of Santa. Anytime someone asked Kelsey about seeing Santa, she said, "he's scary." So we left it at that - Drew indulged on 2 huge pancakes and Kelsey ate 3 cups of applesauce and a pancake, so they enjoyed part of the adventure. My step-dad is a volunteer firefighter and Drew has gone to the station with him before and was able to crawl up and sit in all the fire trucks. Then on Saturday he didn't want to leave because he saw the couple trucks left in the garage behind the food and thought that he should just get to sit in them!

The kids making a "bridge" - the theory is good but not the right materials!

Before the bridge collapse and he ended up on the floor.

Remodeling Blues

REMODELING!!! I promise myself that I am not going to do it again. We had our living/dinning room and front entry/stairway painted last week. It was by far the most positive remodeling experience we've had. They finished in a day and a half, were very clean, and I love that it is DONE. The only problem is that we had to take everything down off the walls and now we are "re-arranging" the artwork/pictures.

Now we are working on the "other" bathroom or more candidly referred to as the pink bathroom! The guy we hired to do the tile work says he will be finished by Sunday...I don't want to bet against him because I'd like to be done with it all but we had a lot of problems with the "blue" bathroom before that was considered finished.

Had to post a pic of Kelsey in her cute mermaid pj's.

365 Long Days

We spent the weekend up at my dad's, kinda celebrating, mostly remembering him. The whole fam went out to dinner to my dad's favorite supper club, followed by what might have been the last sleepover in our childhood home. Then Sunday we went to church, or as the kids like to call them "castles" - Jesus is cool. I bet He would be okay with you calling His house a castle:) Followed by old fashions in dad's garage and then a trip to his favorite water hole! All in all a nice weekend, considering all the loose ends we still have to tie up a year later....just stuff on top of stuff.

Kelsey and Uncle Matt, playing video poker!

Dude Looks Like a Lady

Oh that Drew! He loves shoes - he loves my shoes, wants me to always put them on, pulls them out of my closet for me. He LOVES that he has many shoes - options galore but he does get stuck on a favorite pair and then I have to make a big production out of a new shoe so that he will be excited to wear them (especially when we grows out of a pair). I should have expected nothing less when he found my shoes early one morning that I had taken off after coming home late the night before from a wedding. He thought they were the greatest thing. And of course Drew was trying on that fabulous orange hat - a whole unique outfit:) He didn't even want to give them up for Kelsey to try on.

The weather has been very wintery over her the past couple days so I pulled out the kids footed pj's. They put them on and both said, "oh, where's my foot?" Totally confused because they are so used to wearing pj separates with access to their toes! But this pic of Kelsey in her pjs and also wearing earmuffs is too funny. They're pink. She'll wear anything pink or sparkly. She's such a girl ;)

We're Still Trick-o-Treating

No, no we're not going house to house, but Kelsey still sings the Disney Jr Halloween songs and Drew yells "trg o TREAT!" (emphasis on the treat part - forget trick because we don't know what that means). The best part is when Kelsey doesn't remember all the words but knows that I do, she says "Try it, mom." Meaning she wants me to sing the parts she doesn't know - so stinking cute, as she bops her head along!

Kelsey at a pirate birthday party

Getting tattoos. Drew HATED his, he made me get it off of him ASAP!

What can I say?