Crazy Sledding!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas yesterday! I'll post some pictures later. I've benn trying to recooperate from my sickness. I'm congested like crazy and now that I've pulled of a nice Christmas (I cooked the BEST Turkey ever, BTW.) I've just been taking it easy. Pete is off until January 5th, so having him home is always nice!

Anyway, yesterday, he went out to snowblow and after he was done decided to sled down the side of our house. No, not the left side. The right side. You know, where the big huge triple decker boulder retaining wall is? Yep, that one.

Tonight he went out again so I could get some videos of him and the kids. I was standing by our bedroom window on the southeast corner of the house. We're getting the run nice and groomed for when my brother comes next week. I have an orthopedic surgeon friend who agreed to be on call, too!



Grooming a new run


Abby's Turn! Don't worry, we made them start off a little lower


And Tyler...


When I feel better, I'm going to try it out.

The Magic of Santa

I hope they never stop believing. They are so genuinely into Santa, I just love it! Tonight when it was time to get Santa's snacks ready, Abby couldn't believe he was coming TONIGHT!!! I think she thought that since tomorrow is Christmas, that naturally he would come tomorrow. It is just so magical at this age. They TRULY still believe. It makes it so much fun! Tyler insisted that we sing Happy Birthday to Jesus before bed too. So cute :)

Pete took the PINK laptop upstairs to tuck them in and track Santa on the internet. He was also going to read them 'Twas the Night Before Christmas' from there since, well, I can't find the real book. Such a great thing, technology.

Anyway, while they were upstairs, I grabbed our wreath hanger, which has jingle bells on it, off the door, went outside and rang it. I rang it a few times, then came in. Abby had come downstairs. She said she had heard bells and I told her I thought I had too, but I went out and checked and didn't see anything. They were so excited at hearing the bells. Such a simple thing.

We have established that Santa is now in South America. They have been instructed to go to sleep...HAHAHA! In the morning, they are to wake us up, and NOT open anything. We'll see how that goes :) I guess that's one drawback to a main floor master, they have to walk right by the tree to get to our room :)

I'll post more in a bit, I have pictures from our Santa visit as well as some from today!

Baking is exhausting

Today was declared BAKING DAY!!! Oh, and laundry too. Abby and I made lots of yummy treats! We made Magic Cookie Bars, Cookies and Cream Fudge, Lofthouse Knockoff Cookies, and Millionaire's Shortbread. I am very tired. I have a few more things I want to make, maybe tomorrow. I also did 5 loads of laundry. My wonderful husband put most of it away. I am so lucky to have a husband who is so helpful around the house :)

I've also been playing with my new Silhouette machine. Its a digital craft cutter, it makes die cuts, letters, you name it. You can cut paper, magnet sheets, vinyl, etc. For now, I just made some cute Christmas gift tags. I'll have to take a picture tomorrow, they turned out really cute!

Abby's Kindgergarten Show

Abby's Kindergarten class, along with 2 other K classes, did a cute little Christmas show a week ago. Here are a few clips from it. The quality isn't that great, but its still cute! Abby is in the back row, center, with a red dress and red headband. Who knew so many girls would wear the same style dress?



This next one is funny. Each child had a 'special' part in the show and this was Abby's turn. She and a few other kids held Peppermint Sticks while singing the song. I asked Pete to make sure to get her special part on video.



Yep. Pete couldn't figure out who his own child was. I guess that's what you get when you are looking through a 3 inch screen!

Let's try some video!

So we got a new camera a week or two ago. I had Pete's old Canon Rebel but I wanted something I could put in my purse and take with me easily. So we are selling the Rebel and got a Canon something or other to replace it. It does video clips! I'm trying to figure out how to upload them.

So here's a test.

Abby, playing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star on the piano!



Yay, it works!!! Did you enjoy the noisy boys too?