We picked up Grandpa to have him over for Christmas dinner. I am not sure he understood all that was going on. I am not sure he knew was I am really. But it was nice chatting with him, and good to see him excited about being out and about. We had a nice Christmas dinner and then every headed home.
Monday, December 25, 2017
Opening Presents
Tommy was the shredder when opening presents this year. He was so excited and just tearing through that paper.
White Christmas
We were lucky enough to have a white Christmas this year. It was just a heavy dusting and it didn't last long. But the boys got to go out and sled while they waited for uncle Tony to wake up and make it over to the house.
Santa Presents & Opening Stockings
They boys woke up and were ready to rush out to see what Santa brought them. Tommy got exactly what he wanted and more. Jake saw his work book and lost it. Apparently it was not what he wanted. Santa fail. After some crying we got him to look at it. He wasn't super impressed. But we opened the stockings and the wind up toys cheered him up. Jake's creative mind is going to be a tough one to interpret.
Sunday, December 24, 2017
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas everyone. Turn up your audio to hear a little Christmas message from the boys. Thank goodness they are passed out now because they are totally hopped up on Christmas.
Christmas Eve Dance Party
We spent Christmas Eve night at my parent's house. There was a late night dance party to wear some boys out so they would sleep for Santa.
Frosting Christmas Cookies
We made Christmas cookies at grandma's house but ran out of time to frost all of them. So today we finished frosting all our cookies. The boys love it. Especially doing the sprinkles. We certainly ended up with some multi-colored Picasso style masterpieces. But it gave them something to do rather than get super excited about Santa again.
Kitty Presents
I took the boys shopping at Grannies Attic a few times this year so they could buy some presents for people. They really wanted to buy presents for their cats. So we got a couple and the boys wrapped them up. And on Christmas Eve we let the boys give them to the cats. I think the boys were more excited about it than the boys, but it was cute.
Saturday, December 23, 2017
Santa's Sleigh
Tommy just can't wait for Christmas. He drew a picture of Santa's sleigh on his chalk board.
Silly Goofs
My boys are such goofs. What to do to keep yourself busy in a trailer in the winter. Take goofy pictures for mommy.
Little Monsters
The boys and I decided to work on some crafts while we had time off from work and school. We had some fabric left over from grandma's house. It was a fabric of a shirt that she made and wore all the time. I didn't want to throw it out so the boys and I made some little monster stuffies. They decided they wanted to give them to cousin Ruby and cousin Jett for Christmas.
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Company Christmas Bowling Party
We had our company Christmas bowling party at West Seattle Bowl again this year. I was going to take both boys but Jake was tired and had the sniffles. So Tom and I went. We parked and walked onto the boat and then caught the bus. He thought the bus was pretty cool. Especially that he got to sit in the back of the bus for once. And then we walked to the bowling alley. Tom ended up being the only kid there since there were a couple no shows. So we had the kids lane all to our selves. Kept us pretty busy and worked up a sweat with just the two of us. Tom used the bumpers and the ramp and he did pretty well. He even got a couple strikes or high scores as he called them. And he got a high of 95. Then we walked and bused and ferried back home. Tom was exhausted and so was I :)
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Decorating for Christmas
Tommy is obsessed with Christmas this year. When we were cleaning out the last of Grandma Clarice's house he asked if he could take a bunch of the Christmas stuff because it was so pretty and shinny and cute. So I let him take some. He has been rearranging them all the time. I brought out a couple of our things as well but not even close to all of it as we still don't really have anywhere to put it. I did go out into the yard and cut down a baby tree and put it in the tree stand for them. Tom has been decorating it over and over again. He totally loves it. And then we brought out the Christmas train and he wanted to do basically nothing else but the train.
Monday, December 11, 2017
Saturday, December 09, 2017
Letter to Santa
The boys wrote their first letter to Santa this year. Tommy was super concerned that he didn't get a chance to tell Santa what he wanted for Christmas when he got his picture take with him. I reassured him that Santa knows, but if he would like he could write Santa a letter. So Tommy kept reminding me till we had a chance to do it. Tommy wrote the whole thing himself. I just had to help him figure out which letters to use. And he drew a picture of a loop de loop track on the back. Jake on the other had was a little particular about it. I did some dot to dots for him to trace some letters. He lost patience with that so I ended up having to do most of it for him. But he was super particular about the picture as Jake wants a work book from Santa. I tried drawing a book for him per his request. But whatever I was doing he didn't like it. So we ended up with just a very large rectangle on the page. Hopefully whatever Jake has in his mind about this work book is what shows up Christmas morning from Santa.
Sunday, December 03, 2017
Creative Creations
Tom keeps making fun shapes out of the magnets and keeps asking me to take pictures of them so he can capture his work.
Saturday, December 02, 2017
Birthday, Santa & Hockey, Oh My
Happy birthday Eric. It was a pretty exciting morning for the boys. They got to see Santa. We went to the Santa breakfast again at Pam's office at Russel. The breakfast was wonderful. The kids got Santa pictures. They also did some crafts and made some paper airplanes. They really loved playing with Nancy's son Dakota. They we went to Pam's desk to take a look out the window. There has been construction going on outside her window for quite a while and they were working today. The boys watched the crane swing around and all the hustle and bustle below.
Eric didn't really want to do anything for his birthday. But his company Holiday party was tonight at the thunderbirds. So we got a sitter and went out and watched some hockey. There was some serious brawling going on. I think 2 guys ended up getting ejected. And I think Eric had a good time hanging out with his coworkers.
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