Holiday Fun!

Christmas!

This Christmas I am grateful for a beautiful, happy family, yummy food and children who yell "Yes!  New underwear!  I wanted new underwear!".  We have quite the spread of yummy food to snack on all day.  Chandler got Mario Kart on the wii and it's a huge hit for everyone!  He even got extra wheels.  We also had a little Nerf war and played Battleship.  It was just a great, relaxing, fun day together. 

It's Christmas Time!

We went to the Winter Wonderland downtown last night.  It was great.  We saw Stormtroopers, Olaf (which Fiona and Declan adored) and Claire, Chandler and Fiona got fencing tips from a Scottish highlander.  It was a lot of fun!

  

And we got our tree today! We went to old a great, small, you cut tree farm.  We had a little bit of excitement when the tree went flying off the roof of the van as we were driving down the highway!  Poor Daddy ran into the road to grab it.  We’ve never had that happen before!  We decorated when we got home.  Claire and I put the lights on while Daddy worked on outside lights and we could have done a better job, but the kids love it and that's all that matters.  It looks very Christmasy in here!

She's growing up!

We had an awesome Christmas party this morning with our homeschool co-op. Claire and Chandler went home with friends so I have no big helpers! But Fiona just went on and on all the way home about the Christmas party. I heard all about the yummy cupcake she ate, that she hid behind the Christmas tree, that she played tag with her friend Mia and Mia was "tag" ("Do you mean Mia was It?" "Yeah! Mia It!"). She is at such a fun age!

Halloween 2015

This is Fiona's first time trick or treating - she is so excited!  

Fiona was a fairy, Chandler was Optimus Prime and Claire was a witch.  Declan and I stayed home and gave out candy while Daddy took them around the neighborhood.  

The kids came home with so much candy! The decision this year was they could eat all they want tonight and then the rest goes in the garbage. They went for it!  Usually we do 2 pieces each day and it drives me crazy. I just want to get it over with. They didn't actually eat very much at all.  Not sure if the funniest part was Claire frantically eating for about 10 minutes, then staring at a half eaten candy bar with a pale face saying, "I think I feel a little sick..." (She was okay after a glass of water) or Fiona trying to shove 3 lollipops in her mouth at once!