Posts Tagged ‘Christmas’
Christmas Snapshots
We had a wonderful Christmas leaving me with a type of exhaustion that feels like it will never be gone. So glad Brandon has had the whole week off to pick up my slack. What will I do when he goes back to work next week?!
Here are a few snapshots of our Christmas.
Squeal on Christmas day immediately after opening all of her presents.
Shout and her Dad playing Giant Chess. I love that the pieces are about the same size as a thermos. I doubt they will ever play with regular sized pieces again.
One of my favorite gifts A Cake pop maker! You better believe I will blog about how these turn out. So fun!
How I have spent most of the holiday. Laying back in polkadot jammies, nothing could be better!
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!! I would love to hear about yours. If you want too, let me know how yours went in the comments.
The Fun Continues.
We had a really good Christmas and I hope you all did as well! The holiday is not over yet here at our house. The Umpire has the entire week off! I am so excited to spend it doing all the things that we did not fit in before Christmas.
Tomorrow my girls will be spending the day at their grandma’s house. The Mr and I will be shopping away, Going to lunch and maybe a movie. We have not been on a date for a really long time and I am naming this one the post Christmas date Extravaganza. Pretty catchy right?
As of now we have not at all recovered from Christmas the house is a mess, I know that I have eaten my entire weight in every holiday food imaginable and I feel like a could sleep for a year. but fixing all that can wait an extra day.
My girls were surprisingly sweet this year during all the mayhem and I caught them on more than one occasion being really nice to each other.
My favorite reaction was when Shout opened up the Nerf gun the Umpire got her. She was so confused! This was a boy toy how could it possibly be for her? Once opened and ready Shriek and Shout loved their nerf toys and had a lot of fun.below is a picture of them together opening up the refill pack. Although we are not done having kids I think my husband has given up on the chance that any of them will be boys and has decided to get our girls into some of the things he loves. I say more power to him we have enough glitter and pink to last a life time!
Everything else they got was pretty girly and Squeal got a new baby doll that she drags around everywhere. Gotta love Christmas!
Advent Calendar
I have a confession to make. Are you ready for this? I do not do stockings for my family for Christmas. There I said it. We don’t even have a fireplace, and if it makes you feel any better my mother in law does stockings for my girls every year. So they don’t miss out on all the wondrous stocking moments on Christmas day.
Because I still wanted to do something fun and festive I decided I would do an Advent Calender for the Screamettes this year. A few years ago my Mother in Law (yeah, she’s awesome) gave us a beautiful Christmas quilt with pockets for each day in December.
I love how it looks against our green brick wall. I thought one day each week here I would share some of the fun little things I am putting in the pockets for the girls to get every day. The items I will talk about today were all purchased at one of my favorite place to get holiday things. The Christmas Boutique held inside the Festival of Trees. I was able to go with my mom on Tuesday and had a blast. It is for such an amazing cause all of the proceeds go to the Primary Children’s Medical Center. Here are the things the girls will be getting from the advent calendar for the next few days
I am so excited to see how much fun they have with the cute sock puppets!
There were so many amazing trees! Here is a picture of the fun tree my Mom bought. She has nine grandchildren eight years and under and they are all going to go nuts when they see this at her house.
It is so cute up close as well and don’t you just love the awesome shot I got of my Mom’s arm taking a picture with her phone. I have amazing photographic timing don’t ya think?
I love this time of year and all the neat things that are going on. There is no better time of year.
