Home Depot Kids Club

After we spent all morning sledding, we had about 3.5 minutes to get ready and get over to The Home Depot for the kids building class, again, I can only apologize for the super scary picture of me. Yikes.

It was fun to use tools and paint, but I think the kids were just tuckered out from all that sledding.  Hunter's face is still red.

It FINALLY snowed

We finally got enough snow for the kids to sledding.  We started first thing this morning.  Hunter wouldn't stop asking if it was time to go out yet.  At 9:30 a.m. Hunter got his gear on, and I bundled up as well and we picked up our cute neighbors.

It was so cold but as you can see the kiddo's didn't seem to mind at all.

In an effort to build a snowman the kids began rolling their snow balls.  Well as kids do they got a little carried away and not only did we have to move them with the sleds we couldn't even come close to lifting them on top of one another.  So we ended up with a snow fort.

Hurray for snow!

 Matt, Hunter and Britney

 Watch out Mom!

 Brit with the beginnings of the biggest snowball of the day!

 Hunter and Matt with theirs

 Matthew

 Wow, Brit good job!

 Way to go buddy, that is huge!

Oh Matt, I am sorry I didn't get a final shot of your monster ... But trust me it was big!

Thanks cute kids for such a fun morning.

A day to vegg...

Christmas aftermath...  After a long hard day of playing with every toy he got for Christmas and being able to spend the entire day in his Jammie's....  Hunter hit the wall... in his new sleeping mask.

Hunter and his new gaming chair and Thor head phones playing the wii

 Hunter sleeping.... Just a little side note, I have slept with the back of my hand against my cheek since I was a baby....  look, my baby does the same thing.  Awwww

 Sweet dreams little one.

Christmas Dinner 2011

Helen and Phil invited Hunter and I over for Christmas dinner. 

We had a lovely evening eating, opening gifts and playing Lego's.

Thank you to our extended family.  We are so blessed to have you in our lives.

We love you.

 Hunter and Uncle Joe

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

Merry Christmas

 We were so blessed this Christmas.   Santa treated us all real well. But by far the best gift was that this was our first Christmas together as a family.  Yes, Daddy came to spend Christmas morning with us.  Hunter was beyond excited to have both Mommy and Daddy there.  We are all reminded at such a time that these little moments mean so much to a child.  It is a day that Hunter and I will never forget.  Happy memories, when just for a moment all is well, all was very well.

Thank you Daddy for coming.

 Wow!

 The mad dash down the stairs.

 Hurry and take the picture Mom, I can't wait!

 LEGO STAR WARS...  Need I say more.

 Opening gifts.  Don't hurl anyone...  Terrible morning pic of me.

Movies

 Stocking - a new sleeping mask

CHRISTMAS BREAKFAST

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and may you all be blessed in the New Year!

Christmas Eve 2011

Christmas eve was very busy for us. 

We got up and made cookies first thing in the morning.  Then we had to finish up all of the last minute items.

!st - Write our letter to Santa

2nd ~ Finish wrapping gifts

 3rd~ I made my Mother's Lasagna.

4th~ We got ready and headed over to Helen and Phil's for our annual Christmas Eve dinner.  Helen and I each made a Lasagna instead of our traditional spaghetti dinner. We had tons of food but it was wonderful as always.

5th~ After dinner we headed home to prepare for Santa's big visit.  We opened our Christmas Jammie's.  Complete disaster from the very start.  I had a hard time finding Jammie's for us this year?  I am not sure why it was so difficult.  Anyway, I ended up settling and grabbed Hunter's from the boy's section and the grabbed some that matched his from the woman's section.  When we got them on both were 17 sizes too big.  The one's I got for Hunter were in fact woman's size large (yikes) and I guess I wasn't doing myself justice because I put mine on and I could have fit two of me in them (I kinda liked that though).  Anyway, we made what we had from last year work.

 6th~ It was time to put out the cookies and milk for Santa and Santa's Magic Key.

     7th~ We got ready for bed, read Twas The Night Before Christmas. And drifted off to sleep with visions of sugar plums dancing in our heads.

Baking cookies for Santa

Baking cookies for Santa is one of our favorite traditions.  Passed on by my Mother, it is what got us most excited about Santa's impending arrival.  Although my Mom baked an entire dining table full of goodies, we managed a few of our favorites. Growing up our house smelled like Christmas, looked like the North Pole, and was full of magic and wonder.

We made a huge mess and lots of yummy cookies.  Hunter did so much to help this year, I think it made the cookies taste even better.

 Getting ready...

 Christmas apron on

 and we are ready to roll.....

 One word FROSTING.......

 YUMMY

Ta da!