A & E

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Christmas Traditions

What are your Christmas Traditions?

We pretty much do all the regular things but I want to try and branch out in the years to come.
Some of the things we do or have done are:
Christmas lights at temple square
Pinata on Christmas Eve
Pajamas on Christmas Eve
Festival of Trees
Have Santa come to a family christmas party
Drive around to houses/communities that put up big Christmas light displays
Go to the light luminary at the Winder Dairy graveyard
Have sticky buns/pull aparts Christmas morning.

I'm thinking this year we will do gingerbread houses but do them as stables instead so we will have gingerbread stables.

I am also making the husband take me to A Christmas Carol play this year so that is something different.

I knew a family that had an orange peel fight on christmas eve. I always thought that sounded fun but feel dumb stealing it.

Is there anything else fun out there?!

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Another

So as most of the people who view this blog know (since there is only like 4 of you) we are having another chitlin in March. We found out on Monday that it is most likely a girl (the cord was in the way but they were pretty sure). I was kind of hoping for another boy so that it would be closer to kid #2 which is a boy, but no big deal really. There are advantages & disadvantages to both I guess....I'm really not looking forward to teenage years...
Today #1 taught #2 to say 'mine' which he automatically picked up on.
My morning was spent listening to a shouting match between a 3 & 1 year old saying 'MINE!'.
It was a rough morning needless to say.

I guess I wouldn't be a very good mom if I didn't post the traditional kids dressed up in their Halloween costumes would I?

Arbor Day 2010

Sabrina sent me some Larkspur seeds for Arbor Day this year so I sprinkled them in my planter bed and let them take their course.
This is pretty much the only one that grew but isn't it a beaut?