Well, here we are with another holiday season come and gone. The last month (plus) has been a whirlwind of parties, eating, fun activities, eating, shopping and more eating. As our hours of sleep decreased, our waist lines have expanded. I'm looking forward to getting the holidays behind us and these extra pounds off. BUT before that happens, I'm heading back to Texas to spend a little Christmas joy time with my family. In addition to all the holiday chaos, the last week has been chaos with Mom in the hospital .We're all looking forward to getting home and giving her big hugs to aid in her recovery.
Since all of this madness has kept me from properly blogging, here is our celebrating in pictures taken with my phone (I haven't even looked at the ones we took with our actual camera yet).
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| Dylan being a turkey. |
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| Gobble Up That Cuteness! |
We got a couple of great snowstorms that filled our yard with snow and then had a big melt the week before Christmas. Before the snow was gone, we needed to make a snowman. Dylan gave him ears. Cade was a sledding maniac and wanted to do nothing but go down the hill, walk up and hop on the sled back down. Dylan also got new skis and the lessons will start in the new year.
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| Frosty with our inflatables - Cade got great joy out of watching them go inflate and deflate all month. |
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| Saw Santa at my company holiday party. The boys had a great time dancing on the dance floor but hightailed it off quickly when Santa showed up to hokey pokey. I guess they were intimidated! Dylan was very excited to see Santa getting ice cream at the dessert bar. |
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Got our Christmas tree early - the weekend after Thanksgiving.
It made it to Christmas but I'll be tossing that thing out very promptly when we get back from our trip.
Hopefully it won't be kindling while we're gone. |
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| Dylan was a great help decorating the tree. Cade just wanted to play with the ornaments. |
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| This was Cade's addition to the tree. Poor dangling Spiderman! |
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| We had an impromptu pizza party with some of the families we've met through Dylan's preschool. I am completely in awe of the wonderful people that we've met in our community. It makes us really love it here. These lovely gals are MacKenzie and Isabella - 2 of Dylan school friends and wonderful cooking assistants. |
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Santa also came to Dylan's preschool party. He was very eager to share one of his candy canes with his brother.
(That sound you just heard was my heart melting a little.) |
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| Cade's finally got enough hair to get some seriously cute bed head. (AKA crazy hair.) |
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| Christmas Eve Snowman Pizza |
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Christmas Morning Reindeer Pancakes
I may have a problem with making theme food. Is there a group therapy for that? |
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| Waiting on the stairs for the ok from Dad to come down to see what Santa had left us. |
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| Lots of presents under the tree! |
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We didn't get to spend much time in NH this month but we did squeeze in one quick trip last weekend.
We went on a little hike. The boys did a great job walking in the snow. I was more comfortable with snowshoes on but the boys opted to just use their boots. Dylan plopped his snowshoes on towards the end of the hike and did great with them. Cade was not a fan...perhaps we'll try them on him again when it's not right at nap time. |
So that's a really quick review of what we've been up to. With our trip to Dallas and a to do list a mile long to do when we get back, I can't promise I'll be back here before the new year. So happy holidays, Merry Christmas and Happy New Years to you all!
