Valentine's Day Care Package

As usual, another holiday is rolling around and Grammy packed up another box and sent the kids their care package. Brooke told me on Christmas Eve that she wanted a baby monkey and a mommy monkey. Well, at this point I was a little screwed with this request. Mommy monkey was all set to go...baby monkey...didn't exist. Well, grammy found a baby monkey and Brooke got it in her care package. Kyle of course was all about the fruit chews. He actually layed down on the floor and pretended to eat the entire pile of them. What a ham that kid is. For the actual day of Valentines day, we are going to be in Lake Arrowhead. I am going to take the kids with me up to the Scrappin' Shack. It has been snowing up there so I figure I will pack the 2 sleds and the kids can have fun in the snow. I also went through my scrap closet and found some stuff to bring for them so I can teach them the art of scrapbooking! When that lasts for about 5 minutes, I'll have some movies and games for them. Thank God Cindy is bringing her kids. Maybe Sage will have fun with them since he is a few years older than them. Steve might join us later if he doesn't have to work. I have this entire week off from school. I am still getting over this cold business. Luckily the kids have bounced back. Steve and I are still trying to get rid of the last bit. The kids will have their Valentine's Day party at school this week on Thursday. I will have to work on the cards before that so they can pass them out. It will be their first time giving and getting Valentine's Day cards from friends. How cute! Since I'm off, I might just have to stick around and help out at the party and take pictures.

Pre-School Pictures

The kids had their very first school pictures this year. I had NO clue how they were going to turn out but to my surprise, they turned out pretty good. I was wondering how I was going to send 2 three year olds to school at 7:30 in the morning and have pictures taken around 9:30 and have the kids be clean and looking nice. It happened. Kyle of course is the ham. The year at school is flying by quite quickly. It's a great school and I love it.

Santa Picture

Here are the kids with Santa! Hats off to my wonderful husband and my father for standing in line with the cold wind and weather while the kids, my mom and I all stood in the stores staying warm. They stood in line for an hour! What a great dad and pop pop!

This year I did not have to bribe Kyle with fruit chews in order to sit on Santa's lap. They both walked in and gave him a hug. They both remembered that he was going to give them a candy cane though. It's always about the candy!

2009 Christmas Card

I have been bitten by the digital scrapbooking bug. I love it but it's time consuming. Much slower than slapping stuff down on the page with some stickers. Here is what I came up with this year for our Christmas card. I absolutely love "Just So Scrappy" designs so here is what I did:



You gotta love the fact too that Costco allows you to print your own designs on their blank cards. Love it!!! Might just have to do this next year as well! So cheap but yet so cute!

Hopefully in the new year I will find some more time to scrap my favorite subjects!!

Thanksgiving

For the second year in a row, I had the entire week of Thanksgiving off. what a relief. we took the motorhome out to Palm Springs and enjoyed the week out there with the kids' godparents. The weather couldn't have been nicer and we had a great time. I think I took a nap almost everyday with the kids.

Janet and I decided to do a super easy turkey dinner....we all got reservations to the clubhouse dinner that they were having. Made clean up a real breeze. bummer was, no leftovers.

Janet was great with the kids and did crafts with them and also brought them pooping turkeys. The kids thought that was great fun. I was waiting for them to tell someone that they were eating poop!!

Janet also made a run to the super walmart one day and came back with a golf set for the kids. the back part of our spot was right on the golf course and a putting green. The kids had a blast with their golf set. although, they played more like it was hockey. can anyone say "happy gilmore!"

here are some pictures from the week:

It was a great week and we all packed up and headed home on Friday. The kids and I were all sick on the day we left. We spent the rest of the holiday weekend resting and getting ready for the next big holiday...Christmas! I just can't believe how fast the year is going.

Big Boy...This Ones for YOU!!

I saw this layout and had to post it. For whatever reason, Kyle has been walking around telling us, "gobble, gobble." Guess it's a little different than, "quack, quack." They are learning about Thanksgiving at school which makes sense. I can't believe we are already into November. My how the time flies.

As we were coming home from school yesterday, I was explaining to the kids about how at Thanksgiving, we look at all the things we are thankful for. I started it off and made some statement and then Brooke told me she was thankful for her cat and dog. Too cute. Kyle hadn't quite caught on but he gave me a silly answer this morning about being thankful for a toy. We'll have to work on that one!

We are going to go to the Harvest Carnival today at their school. Don't quite know what to expect so we'll have to wait and see. Hopefully they will have plenty of stuff for 3 year olds to do.

Trick or Treating

Halloween was such a blast this year. First of all, my parents came down and went trick or treating with the kids and I. We also had the neighbors over for some traditional stew dinner before we went out. We left the house about 6pm and didn't return until 7:30pm. My original intent was to just go down the block a little bit but the kids really got into it....especially Kyle. He had told me for about a week before that he didn't want to go trick or treating even after I told him that he would get candy. He was still afraid of the Halloween decorations at night. He was fine with them during the day but night time was a whole new ball of wax. He did great! He was even saying thank you to the people who were giving him candy without any coaching from mom! I was so proud of him!! After awhile though, their bags got pretty heavy with the candy and grammy and I ended up carrying them and handed them off to the kids when they went up to a house. It was a great family night. We came back to the house to have some cupcakes that our neighbor Laurie had made, hung out with family and friends and handed out candy until almost 10pm! I will post some pictures of the night later.