Giving Grandpa and Grandma their presents. I love Colin's face. What a joyous day.
Santa must be crazy but nonetheless, Colin got a drum!!!
Santa surprised John with concert tickets...the concert is in May so we have lots of time to look forward to it.
Heaven Help Us
Santa brought Seth a watch. He asks what time it is roughly 35 times a day. I had fun asking him what time it was at various moments in the day. About the third time Seth said, "Mommy, I'm getting tired of answering this question." Oh how I giggled.
Today was the last day of school before Christmas Break. If you remember from when you were in school, that also means that today is the day for the classroom holiday party.
The problem is that right now it looks like this...
And school has been cancelled.
I was just telling John last night about the time I had to miss my classroom party because I had the flu. I still remember it as one of the saddest days of my childhood. So this morning, when I read and confirmed that the boys would indeed not be going to school, I knew there would be two disappointed little boys.
Luckily, several weeks ago I told the boys that we could have hot chocolate when it snowed for the first time.
The Polar Express and hot chocolate with marshmallows
I think we've successfully turned their frowns upside down.
John recently spent a day at school with the boys as part of the Watchdog program. Dads (Grandfathers, Uncles, etc) sign up to spend a day helping in various classrooms, checking that doors are locked and kids are safe.
Seth has been looking forward to having Daddy at his school for months. Colin didn't know he was coming (We didn't know Colin would be there when John signed up at the start of the school year). Colin came home and told me he was "SHOCKED" to see Daddy walk into his class.
John enjoyed it too. He visited five classrooms throughout the day and got to hang out with kids from the basketball team he coaches through the Rec Center.
Just for fun...here's the last time Colin put the angel on the tree. Little pudgy Colin. (Christmas 2010)
We have three trees this year. The boys each have a tree full of ornaments they've made and ornaments people have given them. Seth's tree has baseballs, and glittery S's. Colin's tree has animals and lots of homemade glittery paper ornaments.
Heather, Jenny and Kelly came over this weekend to bake Christmas goodies. There was quite an array of baked goodness in my kitchen. Everyone brought a recipe to try and off we went.
I made two batches of Peppermint Bark. I left out the canola oil and used crushed candy canes instead of peppermint candies. It's delicious. At the current rate of consumption, I'm not sure they'll ever make it to any gift baskets.
Heather worked on chocolate peppermint pretzel sticks and crafty Hershey treats.
Jenny and Kelly made sugar cookies and whole wheat ginger snaps. I have to admit, that I scoffed at Jenny when I found out she wanted to make whole wheat ginger snaps. I can appreciate a healthier dessert option (I'm made more than one cake with zucchini in it) but given the other recipes we were doing I couldn't help but make fun of her just a little. However, I have to admit they were delicious and I may have taken a couple (or six) when she offered them to me.
I made some frosting and Heather broke out a plethora of frosting tools. Between Heather and Kelly, we ended up with some gorgeous frosted cookies.
Jenny asked if I had any baking soda. Do I have baking soda? Umm...yea just a little.
The Crafting Station
The Frosting Station
Seriously...Check out that snowman army.
Thanks for a fun time girls. My waistline will not be pleased but my tummy sure will. And just for fun...John meant to play this song while we were baking. Enjoy!
