A WEEKEND WITH FAMILY...

zellers staff kids skating party! (saturday)

pizza party after skating! MMM

When we got back we curled up in the living room and watched the Grinch Christmas movie!

FAMILY PICTURES...NEW LOOK!

This morning I received an email from Caroline in Calgary...She took our family pictures and transformed them into a nice collage. What a great idea! Thank you Caroline!

PLAY DAY AT MCDONALDS!

Yesterday, LeeAnn, Brad and the girls came over to visit when the kids got home from school and today we met them at the play McDonalds in Sydney so the kids could run around and spend some time together. We only had Blake because the others kids were in school. We will see them again tomorrow! Tomorrow night is the kids Zellers skating party.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Today is Tracie's birthday...28? (sister)

Thanks for the picture Tracie...I had to go to Facebook...

CHECK OUT OUR VIDEO / CONTEST

As some of you know I spend a lot of my time making money online doing blog ads and this particular assignment I got paid out $65 for doing a video on the Hamilton Beach Stand Mixer. Thanks to Matt (Santa's voice and Blake) I won the mixer and should be here before Christmas. This mixer is worth $300 and I'm looking forward to doing lots of baking...It can mix up to 9 dozen cookies in one mix...yippee!
That's not all. I have the chance to do another video (part 2) for $50. I will let you know how this one turns out...
"Oh What fun it is to blog...."

enjoy our video!

OH WHAT A DAY...

What ever you do...do not turn your back on Blake for a second....TROUBLE! It started off with the disappearance of Blake earlier this morning while Matt and the kids were down in the family room. I went upstairs to start cleaning the kids bedrooms when there was Blake in his bed with a package with 2 pop tarts....great, check out his wall paper...EEEKS (OK Carrie take a few deep breaths now)So Blake got put in Kohl's room for some quiet time and I fixed Blake's wallpaper(added a wood molding this time) washed his blankets and got him 2 fluffy, cozy(s) (that's what he calls them). The room turned out great and smells better too LOL....

No the trouble didn't end with the wall paper and pop tarts, while little Blake was having quiet time in Kohl's room I peeked in and found him eating a can of pringles that he somehow snuck out of our Christmas stuff in my bedroom,(ok Carrie take another deep breath and count to 10 slowly...) Kohl's bed was full of chip crumbs so I washed his blankets as well! The rest of the day went pretty well until I was getting supper ready...I turned around from the stove and found Blake eating the corn right out of the can...(GRRR! What could he possibly do next?)well I guess he's eating something...shouldn't really complain about that. Yes there is more...Do you think that Blake would wait until we were ready to give him a bath...NOPE! He stripped off his clothes and hopped in the tub (this time I was ready to pull my hair out LOL) but on the bright side of things at least this time he didn't turn on the HOT water...Now don't get me wrong, Blake wasn't BAD, we just couldn't take our eyes off him for a second.

Jay is off to youth group tonight and the other 3 kids are watching "Land Before Time" on TV before heading off to bed. What a day!

OK so in between all the busy(ness) of Blake throughout the day Matt took the kids outside to play in the snow after our big storm (not much snow) Jay was home today so I did manage to get some pictures of him...they had a great time as you can see and despite the lack of snow on the ground, Jay was determined to make a snow man. It's not to big but it's his first snow man of the winter...Great Job Jay! Trinity and Kohl got cold and came inside for their hot chocolate. YUMMY :0)

During the past couple of days I have given Blake, Matt and Jay a hair cut and Kohl has been bugging me to cut his hair. Well if you know what Kohl is like when it comes to his hair then you would understand his need to bug...he has to feel the pricklies or it's to long, so after supper I sat him down and he got his hair cut...While cutting his hair he informed me that the reason he couldn't pay attention in class was because his hair was too long and it was tickling him on the sides and that he couldn't remember what he was learning because he had to much hair for it to get to his brain...so hopefully now with his short hair cut he will make out better at school. I will have to check in with his teacher tomorrow after school LOL. What a cutie he is!

FUN IN THE SNOW!

The kids had a great time playing in the snow this afternoon, they definitely tired me out! Jay is still at his friends house and should be expecting him home before supper or I'll have to start checking in for him. North Sydney is having their Santa Claus Parade this evening but we aren't sure if we are going to go to this one. If it starts snowing again we probably will go for sure. The kids don't know about it so they won't be disappointed if we don't go... The kids are off watching a movie and Kohl is spending most of his time in the new family room. He loves it down there which makes me want to get more work done on the walls.

LET IT SNOW....

Late this morning we got our first snow fall. The ground was covered within a couple of hours and at lunch time the kids went outside to play. They had a great time and hopefully when Jay gets home from his friends house I can get some nice pictures of the kids in the front yard...where this snow picture was taken. I'm thinking they should all wear red sweaters?

I will get more pictures posted later tonight! Happy Holidays!