Walking Man

My Baby is walking!

Oh, and he likes Pop Rocks!

Christmas Time

Well we had a great Christmas this year.  Santa was really nice to all of us and spoiled us rotten.

McKay is a big fan of the wagon as long as nobody is touching it while he is playing in it!  Hopefully that will change when we start taking it outside!

The kids love their wagon!  We are storing it in the basement for now and look forward to lots of walks come spring time!

First look at all that Santa brought us.  Kimber loves her kitchen!  I have been wanting to get her one but never got to it so it is perfect!

Ok, I totally understood what I got here after reading a few lines but was so confused as to how it all was coordinated.  Santa is a very sneaky man and made the arrangements of delivery for while we were at church!  Honestly, I started crying just now when I was watching the video because I am so excited for this!  I LOVE IT!

We forgot to bring this present over with everything else so we brought this in after breakfast before opening all the presents.  I am looking forward to going out with the kids and sledding with them.  Benson is getting to a really fun age where he really wants to get out of the house and do stuff like this.

Here is the present that I worked hard on this year.  I got sick of the kids using Cakey's blankets as capes so I made each of them their very own cape.  They look so cute wearing them.  Kimber looks pretty funny with the mask on as it gives her little slits for eyes but she is so cute being 'Batman'!

We are just about ready for our cruise.  I knew I had to post this before we left so that I wouldn't be so behind when we get back.  We drop the kids off tonight and will be listening in on them while they sleep so Brooke and Aric can get out for one last date before being bombarded by kids.  We leave EARLY tomorrow morning and will be soon enjoying the warm Caribbean sun.  So  Excited!!  I am taking my camera unlike almost every other trip lately and will take lots of pictures!

Hope you all have a great New Year's!  Talk to you next year!

Christmas Concert

Today Benson's class gave a Christmas Concert.  They were so cute singing and doing their little actions.  Unfortunately Benson was NOT interested in singing so he stood there the whole time.  I videoed it but blogger is giving me troubles so I can't upload it here but I have a link to Facebook to watch it. 

Part of the class.  I couldn't get all of the kids in with my camera.

Here are the kids last week.  Benson got sick at school on Wednesday and came home and laid on my chair watching a movie.  He ended up falling asleep there after dinner.  I felt so bad for him.  Kimber wants to most things that Benson does so she snuggled into Daniel's chair.

Things are going well here.  We are getting ready for Christmas and Benson is very diligently keeping our countdown going for us.  I just have to make one last thing for each kid and then we will be done getting our presents ready.

We may be getting excited for after Christmas activities, 12 days until our cruise, if you were wondering.  I have to give a big thank you in advance to Brooke for taking our kids for us.  We hope you all have a great holiday season this year.  I just sent out our email Christmas letter today.  If you didn't get one and would like one please leave me your email either in the comments or message me in Facebook.

We are alive!

Just wanted to let you know we are still here.

My MIL took us out yesterday to get pictures taken of the kids and we got a copy of one pose on a cd.  This was such a cute pose!  I didn't want anything Christmas in the photo but McKay found some ornament balls and would not let them go but he was content so why should I care?

We also went and saw Santa.  This was my first time taking my kids to see a Mall Santa and with 3 kids in the picture it almost made it worth the money!

Santa asked McKay what he wanted and Auntie Rachel suggested a spoon to chew on.  He then asked Bens what he wanted and Benson replied with 'I don't know'.  Santa told him to think about it and have Mommy  help him write a letter and send it to the North Pole.  Santa forgot to ask Kimber so I asked her if she had told Santa what she wanted and she timidly said 'Des-a'  (Dress-up clothes).  I had been working up Kimber to see Santa so she wouldn't have any tears when the time came.

Merry Christmas everyone!  24 days until Christmas, enjoy!!

November

So this week has been interesting.  I will start with Tuesday.  I told Benson that when I came down stairs that we were going to cut his hair to even it out.  When I got down stairs with the clippers I found THE scissors from our last incident out and little bits of hair on them.  I looked at his head and found it cut again in two spots.  He trimmed up his last job and then cut some more hair farther back.    The 'best' part of this is that he went into a locked cupboard and got the scissors out to cut his hair.  (Sarcasm!)  I proceeded to take the #1 guard and buzzed his hair right down.  Hopefully it is decently long by November 30 when we have pictures booked for the kids.

On a colder note Winter has come!

It started snowing on Thursday and the kids were chomping at the bit to go out and play in the snow.

Benson being a ham out there.

Kimber making her ugly noise but she looks so cute and funny!

This looks like a Portland amount of snow that would shut down the city.  By the time Daniel got home from work there was a couple of inches on the ground.  Now there isn't even a spec of our pretty green grass showing out there.

Here are my little rugrats tonight.  Kimber and McKay have crazy hair going on and Benson just doesn't have enough hair to be crazy!

Daniel hosted an open house at his work on Wednesday to get word out to family and friends that he is working.  We had a good turn out and were able to see some friends and family we haven't seen in a while.  He got a little bit of business out of it to which is great!  Hint, hint, if you are in the Edmonton area and need a great Chiropractor come visit him at the Century Park Pain and Health Clinic.

(780) 628-7219

Thursday night we went to the first showing of Twilight's Breaking Dawn Part 1.  We enjoyed it and look forward to seeing the next one.  Due to technical difficulties we didn't get into the theater until 10 minutes before the show was supposed to start and it started about 20 minutes late we got free tickets to use and special edition Twilight concession cups.  Boo-yah!  It was a good night though.

Last but not least, can I just say that I love eating New York Steak from The Keg?!  We went there last night for a date and loved it!  I am looking forward to our cruise when I could eat them more often!  On that note, have a great night!

Happy Birthday Pa'a!

Just wanted to let you know we were thinking of you today.  Hope it was a great birthday and we love you!

Have a 'Froggy' Birthday!

I can hardly believe that my little baby is turning 1 already!  This year really did go by way to quick!  At this point with the other two kids I was either ready for another baby or already pregnant so they didn't seem like babies to me anymore but McKay is definitely my little baby still.  How can he be 1 already?!

I made a frog cake this year for my little frog.  It seems to be tradition that our kids get an animal cake for their first birthday that represent them.  Bens was a monkey, Kimber a little miss piggy and McKay is our little froggy.

PS- Bulk Barn rents cake pans!  I used a butterfly cake pan for the body of our frog and it only cost us $2.40 to rent it!

The lily pad cupcakes.  I used one of these as McKay's smash cake.  I had fun making these ones!  Hmmm, maybe that is because it was 12:30 in the morning...

Chowing down on Costco pizza.  This little guy ate 4 pieces!!

We had a lot of family come over to celebrate with us tonight.  Thanks everybody for coming and for all the presents!  Yes that really is a box of Cheerios... we may be getting low on our supply!  Kidding.  He loves them though!!

New touque just in time, it snowed last night!

Grandma put a touque in the bag for Kimber and Benson as well.  Kimber enjoyed sporting hers for all of us.

McKay thinking wether or not he liked the cake... it was a smash!

It's not easy being green!