It Feels like Christmastime

It's the Christmas season - what a great time of year! Today was the first significant snowstorm of the year and I am helping kids put on their snowpants and boots and find matching gloves and mittens. However, I wanted to post a few pictures before it got too long inbetween posts!

We have had a lot going on as most of you have. Here are a few pictures of some of the things we have been doing this last week:

We went to Salt Lake for dinner at the Spaghetti Factory at Trolly Square where Erin and Austin saw Santa,

then we went to Temple Square to see the lights,




and last Monday we decorated a Gingerbread house. This is a picture of it before the kids ate half of the candy.
Well, these were our festive activities during the last week in a nutshell. I apologize for keeping the commentary to a minimum but I have a million things to do as I sit here. I figure people really only like pictures anyway. Hope you all are having a great holiday season!

Back at It

I have turned into a deadbeat blogger. It has been three weeks since I have posted and I am forcing myself to post something. Anything. I will be better.

I haven't downloaded the Thanksgiving pictures yet but I can assure you we had a great Thanksgiving weekend. However, I am in detox mode from all the naughty food I ate and as of this moment I haven't had any sugar for about 20 hours. We will see how long that lasts. You'd be amazed at how many sugary foods I mindlessly reach for throughout the day!

On another note, Austin really wanted me to post a picture of his book report poster he did for school a while ago. He worked really hard on his poster and was excited for me and the other moms to come see the finished products at school.
(It also happened to be silly sock day that day.)

Austin is pretty creative. A couple weeks ago I was sitting at the computer when a jumbo teddy bear on a rope drops outside the window. I have to say it is quite startling to have a stuffed animal the size of a small child drop outside the window:

Next a note drops down:

Now, unfortunately I had to end the fun because any good mom knows it's dangerous for kids to play at an open second story window but it's little things like this that make me smile and enjoy being a mom.