Santa

Last Sat we headed out to dinner and to finish the last of the Christmas shopping for Seans family. Since ALL of them live out of state we had to get gifts mailed but Mon. Anyhoo... we get home from shopping and in by our light on the buffet there were 2 notes from santa. The boys were convinced that Santa had broke in. Santa left their notes cover in MAGIC dust!!!! I love the Christmas spirit. They looked so excited. So we went in their rooms and read their notes aloud. They were super pumped for CHristmas.. heck they had an eairlier visit than most kids get. We made reindeer food for them to take to their dads and they made one for their sister too. We left the rest of the reindeer food out on the front porch on Christmas morning. Needless to say it was raining and the reindeer food was scattered all over the front porch and then to top it off... santa left white boot marks in the entry and on the carpet. The boys love this. I don't want them to realize that mom did this... I love just seeing what their faces look like with all the fun and surprises.

Takin a Hike!!!

The Sat before Christmas Rylle and Sean went for a BIG hike to the wind cave. It's a 3 mile hike both ways. They had tried to takle it a few weeks earlier but they had Tanner who wasn't so happy about hiking all the way up. So the morning of the big hike Sean and Rylle got up at 7 on a Sat and Packed some snacks and took their water bottles and headed off. Rylle sent me a text message when they reached the top. He had soo much fun. Seans planning a surprise hike on Sat.

Family Pictures

We went out for family pictures last week. Kelsea did them for us since my hubby couldn't take our pics and still be in them. She did the most amazing job!!! I love the things that she managed to capture of our family.

Gingerbread.....

We had a night of Gingerbread house making. Sean and Mitchell had never done this and neither have the boys. So Kelsea and I planned a family night of fun. We first got into our jammies to put together the Gingerbread Houses. After we were done we had hot chocolate with uber lots of mallows and watched the Polar Express. The boys camped out on the floor as we watched it as well as Mitchell and Kelsea. So once it was over we put the boys in their beds and Kelsea and Mitchell stayed the night. The boys had more fun that night!!!

What have i been doing????

Well I get a call from my mom this morning telling me how she doesn't know what's going on since I haven't blogged in a a few weeks. WEll here's the poop on what's been happening. My bff Michelle aka my sister is still pregnant. I have spent the past 2 weeks shopping with her so she could get her Christmas shopping done as well as keep the contractions going. She got her membranes stripped and still nothing. SO we wait.. but in the mean time I got ALL my Christmas shopping done!!!! The first time in a few years it was done before Christmas Eve. I"ve managed to fit everyone in for hair and get my house some hwat in order. That's a feat unto it's self. Since Sean and the boys tend to just leave things when they are done with them. So I'm just getting on top of laundry and I have managed to lose 10 lbs in the past 2 weeks. I think with all the walking that I've been doing with Michelle. So that's what's been going on here. The kids are ready for winter break and they are excited to make reindeer food and gingerbread houses and watch Polar Express. All I can say is that I'm twice as busy now than I was when I was working!!