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Henri did NOT enjoy the snow!!!

 

Warming up...

 

He thought this was a much better way to enjoy the snow

 

Our first Official Christmas was at Pa & Ma's house.  We had a wonderful meal of Smoked BBQ ribs, Twice Baked Potatoes, asparagus, corn and really yummy rolls.  It was SOOOO Good.  Thanks Dad & Mom!  Megan kept Herni entertained while we waited to open gifts.

 

 

 

 

Hayden got his Leap Pad 2.  This was a big hit.  Now if Hunter would just stop stealing it from him.  He only has the Leap Pad 1. 

This I have to say is his favorite gift of the night.  

And Keith finally got his Packit.  After asking for one for a year!!!

Uncle Jake & Megan got the boys nurf guns. (Yeah, guess what I'll find all over the house!)

Henri is wiped out but the boys still have energy to play in what is left of the snow. 

 

Dad and Mom have taken over the kids toys, isn't that just the way.

For lunch on Christmas eve I made santa pancakes.  Requested from last year.

Henri enjoyed making a mess of them, but didn't eat much of it.
Well, I'll try to get the rest up soon. We actually still have a little Christmas to still have yet.  We like to spread out the season as best we can. 

The 1st day of First Grade...Can it be???

 

 

 

 

I think the pictures speak for themselves.  

Random Stuff...

Something I will miss as Henri grows...

A fun lunch I made...

The K'nex roller coaster that Keith and the boys built. Hunter got this for Christmas. It really is pretty cool. There is actually a working car on it.

Sleepover...

The Boys got to have a sleepover with their cousin last weekend and they had so much fun!!!
Of course I wanted some kind of theme and so I went with a camp out theme. It was easy, cute and the boys loved it (until it actually came to bed time, oh well)

I made smores' on a stick and popcorn. The smores' were really yummy. I ate way to many of them.

I made them a little fire too. Safe of course!

After some pizza, game playing and car races the boys headed into their tent to watch Wall-E. My boys had never seen it before and they really loved it and now Hayden can appreciate his Wall-E Crocs much more. They decided they didn't want to sleep in the basement in their tent so they all ended up in the boys room, very late, might I add. But once asleep they all stayed asleep!

In the morning I made refrigerator Biscuit doughnuts (a wonderful memory from my childhood)! They were tasty!

Then we took Cameron to the Children's Museum for the first time. They had a blast!

On the way home we picked up some McDonalds for lunch. Can't say itwas the healthist my kids have ever eaten, but they had alot of fun!!! Hope you can do it again soon Cam!

A Magical, Out of this World...Day at Home

Well, after 2 weeks off for Christmas Break, we are back at school a week & a half and they have a few more days off.  That's okay though.  I love having Hunter home and on Monday we had NOTHING going on.  No where to go or anything, so we had some fun at home.

First, Hunter and his trusty assistant Hayden put on an amazing magic show.  I'm still trying to figure out their tricks!!!

And Henri had to get in on the action too!

Here they all three are trying to plan out the next trick.

Then once Henri headed to bed, the boys and I made planets and rockets.  It was alot of fun.  The planets were super easy.  You just take a coffee filter color it with markers and the spray it with a water bottle and all the colors bleed together.  They turned out pretty cool and the boys loved watching the colors spread.

I realize that most don't look like planets, but they started just coloring any colors they wanted.  I wasn't to technical with them.  I made a pretty cool Jupiter though (I don't think it is in any of the pictures...sorry, I know everyone is dying to see it).

Next, onto the rockets.  Oh, I'm not sure where Hayden's "hat" came from.  I guess some of our cutting produced it and he thought it made a pretty cool hat.

Here is Hunter flying through space.  Oh and you can see the top of my Jupiter at the bottom of the picture.  It's much cooler if you saw the whole thing.  Hunters earth is right above it.  Again not totally accurate, but they had fun.

I made them a rocket lunch too.  (I'm having fun making these fun lunches, but I'm pretty sure I'm starting something bad, my kids are going to start expecting them often...)

Here are the boys rockets.  They were fun and easy.  I just used TP rolls and then we made the fire from the coffee filters again.  The coolest part was the flame goes in and out so when you land it can go in and then BLAST OFF again...

It was a fun day.  I don't feel we get days like that often enough when we just spend most of the day playing.  I wish we did...I guess I just need to appreciate them when they come!