Here come Santa Clause...

That's Santa on a fire truck! And that's a fire truck decked out in Christmas lights.
Every year, a few days before Christmas, Santa makes his rounds through the neighborhoods of our small community. And every year we bundle up, wait as patiently as possible for him to pass our house with sirens blaring, and wave until our arms hurt. The boys love it! (me too!)
After Santa is out of our sight we head back inside to warm up with some hot chocolate and debate over who Santa actually waved at. (I'm pretty sure it was me.) Then we pop in a Christmas movie and wrap some presents. It has turned into a pretty fun tradition.

My heart

Hug and kiss your kids. Tell them you love them and how special they are. Let them know that they are the most important and most cherished part of your life. Celebrate them.

My heart goes out to the families in Connecticut. My thoughts, my prayers, my condolences.

Fun times

We went to the circus! We saw lions, elephants, clowns, ladies that flew through the sky like birds and dragons. It was magical!
We decided to surprise the kids with a special night out. They tried all week to guess what we were going to do, but never figured it out. When we got to the arena and they finally figured it out, they were beyond excited. The show was amazing. Death defying stunts, loud music, crazy clowns and a real live (mechanical) dragon that breathed green fire held the kids attention the entire time. The kids are ready to go back. Me too!

Weekend plans

Have a great weekend.

The park is calling our names. The swings are singing a sweet song that lures us to them. And the slides are patiently waiting for our squeals.



Happy Monday

Have a great week!

xo

Halloween

This Halloween the boys decided on store bought costumes. I don't like store bought costumes but I guess it isn't about me. They were happy and thought they looked pretty awesome, and that is all that matters.
Nathan was a Clone Trooper from StarWars and Brandon was a fighter pilot. Their cousin came down as well, she was Bat Girl. She's too freaking cute for her own good!
The boys had a lot of fun. Brian took the night off and walked them around the neighborhood while I stayed back and handed out candy. So after an hour of walking around they came back loaded down with enough candy to last them until Valentine's Day. I dumped the rest of my candy into some little kids bucket so I could go inside (it was very cold) and we called it a night. We checked the candy, ate a few pieces, played with their cousin Kelila, brushed our teeth and hit the hay. It was a pretty successful night in their eyes.

Pumpkin Picking

This past weekend we picked out our pumpkins. There were so many choices... big, small, bumpy, orange, yellow, pink, skinny, fat, expensive and everything else you can think of. But we picked the best ones of course. Nathan got a perfectly round orange one, Brandon picked out a pink flat disk of a pumpkin. I got a yellow bumpy one, because mommy needs a pumpkin too.
Now the fall is complete.