Saturday, January 3, 2009

Merry Christmas



The golf clubs were a huge hit!! Thank you for the
princess game Grace!
Jack also loves the Bob the builder Scoop!






This year, in our new house, I decided to start a new tradition for Christmas Eve, we roasted marshmallows. Colin lit the gas fire place and we all had a great sticky time! As you can hear, hopefully, from the video, Jack has a unique way of saying marshmallow, he kept calling the chocolate bars hot cocoa. It was really a lot of fun.

Afterwards we let the kids open their jammies, as per tradition. I really do love them all dressed up and they were all so soft and cuddly! We got the kids in bed, Colin left for work just before 10 and I stayed up until 12am. I didn't have to but I got involved in some things. Santa came sometime after I went to bed and left some fun presents. Jack woke up at 6:30 asking for his morning warm chocolate milk and because Colin was not at home yet I kept trying to ignore him so we wouldn't have to go downstairs. It worked until about 7:15 when Colin called to let me know he wasn't off work just yet. I put the gate up at the top of the stairs before I went to bed so the kids wouldn't go downstairs before Colin got home. Thankfully Jack forgot that Santa was coming and Mia was still sleeping. Since the lights were off I took Jack down, got his milk and went back upstairs. He didn't notice a thing. Mia woke and Colin got home about 10 minutes later. It was a great day, we missed being with our family! Hope you all had a nice Christmas too!

Better Late Than Never



Trying to keep Cole warm. They were giving away
these gloves to we grabbed a pair and put them on
Cole.


Our friends



Here the kids are having a ride.


I know, we are well past Thanksgiving BUT I do not want to miss putting in on our blog. Someday I hope to publish it into a book so we have to keep up on certain things. We went to Dayton and stayed a few days with our wonderful close friends from medical school. The food was great, the company was fun and I can't wait to do it again!! We went to a little street festival downtown. It was sooooo cold but the kids had fun on the rides!! Jack and Mia had their first ferris wheel ride and loved that too. Colin and the kids helped rake leaves and love riding in the trailer of the mower. We went and saw Bolt and my kids are still talking about it.