So, a few weeks ago I posted about a few things I wanted for Christmas. Well, I didn't get the Slanket I wanted, BUT check it out - they're giving one away over at Thrifty & Chic Mom! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'm the lucky winner!!
This is what you get when you combine: A 2 year old, a 45 minute nap, about 14 Christmas cookies, and a room full of people egging him on. Gotta love "the sprinkler".
Here ya have it folks, our group shot from the "UGLY HOLIDAY SWEATER PARTY" we attended this past weekend. What a hoot!
Last Saturday we celebrated Christmas with the Libby side of the family. We all gathered at Chad's parent's house and had a great time eating, hanging out and opening presents. The kids enjoyed seeing their cousins and we enjoyed catching up with everyone. Peyton especially enjoyed seeing her favorite cousin, Hope. :o) One Christmas down, 2 more to go!!! We're off to Duluth this weekend to celebrate with the Petersons - stay tuned for a post on that!!
Over the weekend it got quite warm and we managed to sneak in a morning of playing out in the snow building a big fat snowman in the front yard. The kids had a blast!! We decked him out with all the usual garb and then asked the kids what we should name him. The obvious answer was "Frosty". Can ya tell what book we've been reading a lot lately? Well Frosty survived the freezing rain, but lost a few pounds as a result. He's still standing in the front yard, though...eyeless, buttonless, noseless and without his hat and scarf - but he's there! Now everytime we leave Carson insists that we "honk at Frosty" as we drive away. Peyton enjoys giving Frosty "kisses" (a.k.a biting/licking snow off of him). Here are a few pix of our fun in the snow.
This was taken up at Trout Lake Camp this fall when a few girlfriends and I went up for the weekend to attend the Women's Retreat. I, of course, had my trusty camera and captured our weekend on film. This picture is my favorite, though. Our attempt to do a "group shot" turned into me setting the timer on the camera, then running like a mad woman and diving in front of the the other girls just in time for them to hold me up before the camera snapped the picture. This pretty much sums up our weekend. Love you girls!!! Can't wait until next year!!
Yesterday we decided to skip church and hang out at home. Both Carson and I haven't been feeling the greatest, so we figured rather than exposing others to our colds we'd just have a nice quiet family day at home decorating for Christmas. It turned out to be a really fun day! We had actually already put our tree up the day before because we'd scored a GORGEOUS 9 ft.+ tree for $20 on our way home from Wisconsin. In years past we've always done your standard size tree and we've put in in our front window. I wanted to try something different this year since we have vaulted ceilings...I've always wanted a HUGE tree!! The kids thought it was pretty cool to have a REAL tree in our house. Carson kept asking, "Mom, are we gonna keep this tree?". And Peyton kept running over to it touching the branches and saying, "Tree in Peyton's house! Oh no!!". They're funny!
As we started decorating the tree the kids were pretty excited because I have a special box for each of them that I've been collecting ornaments in. They were especially thrilled to find their ornaments from last year that had pictures of them when they were "babies". Of course they wanted to touch all the breakable ornaments, so we had a bit of juggling going on between Chad and I, grabbing ornaments from them and trying to hang them on a branch high enough so they couldn't reach them. But they had fun, so that's all that matters. After we had the lights and ornaments on the kids got to help put on some tinsel. Carson told me, "Mama, I like this shiny string!" and Peyton thought it was dental floss, so she had a couple of pieces stuck in her teeth. Nice, huh? Wish I could've gotten a picture of that!
After the kids woke up from their naps they took some time to wander around and see what else we'd put up/out while they'd been asleep. They were intrigued by the stockings hanging from the fireplace. Peyton kept saying "Socks on?" and Carson wasn't sure what to think. So we had a talk about how when it's Jesus' birthday then their stockings will have presents in them. Carson's response was, "Hooray for baby Jesus' birthday!!!". And Peyton's was "Brice's birthday next" (their friend Brice's birthday is Christmas day). So they should be pretty excited to finally get to look in their stockings!!
We spent the rest of the day decorating all around the house and we're officially all decorated!! Chad even put lights on the outside of the house, so we're all set! Now to wrap presents...my favorite part. Probably sounds weird, but I love it!! Hope you're all having fun decorating and gearing up for the celebration of our Saviour's birth!! Enjoy the pictures!
This year was our year to spend Thanksgiving with my side of the family, so Wednesday morning we headed up to home sweet home in Frederic, WI. The kids had been talking for the past couple of weeks about going to Grandma Becky and Papa Mike's house, but I think the thing they were most excited about was seeing Matea, their new cousin. Peyton was so excited to be able to hold Matea, and she kept going over to her and saying "hold you?". I probably should've actually start out by apologizing to my brother Aaron and his wife Katie for the non-stop smothering Matea got from my kids. :) But it was sure fun to see them all together!! As I said to Katie as we were watching the kids play, it'll sure be fun in a couple years when they can all play together and we can sit back and relax.
Here are a few pictures from our weekend and at the end is a cute little video clip of Peyton rocking with Matea, too. Whenever she'd hold her she'd sing to her and then kiss her on the cheek. So cute to watch!!
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