I Love this Season!

I LOVE Christmas. I cannot wait to put up the tree and get the house decorated. We are doing that on Saturday. I am making a lot of my presents this year and I am really enjoying it.

I think I like Christmas Eve the best. We come home after church and have good food...this year we are having chocolate fondue...YUM! Then we all open new jammies and spend time together. The kids are always excited and I love just being together. My brother and Lauren will be home and my Dad's family will be here this year...and we are all staying at Mom and Dad's house.

What are your favorite traditions?

Is your tree up yet?

I missed it

I cannot believe I missed my bloggiversary! I started blogging a year ago on November 16th. Oh well....Happy bloggiversary to me!

Emily

Here is Emily in her new birthday outfit from her Nana and Grandad

We gave her a pink game boy that she has been asking for for about 4 months...she was pretty excited.

ELEVEN?!?!?!?!?

Sunday November 19th, 1995 at 5:48 pm our beautiful baby girl was born. She weighed 5 lbs, 15 oz. She was tiny but she demanded control the minute she was born. Her eyes were wide open and looked up at me with attitude right from the start. She was beautiful but a little demanding at the beginning. She refused to eat...I tried to nurse her but she wanted nothing to do with it. She ate nothing for the first 5 days of her life. We finally gave up after her loosing so much weight (and she wasn't big to start with!) and gave her a bottle...she drained that pretty quick. She also had a mild case of colic and only slept for 20 min at a time some days and nights!! But how could we not love her....she was our baby girl!!!

I cannot believe it has already been 11 years. time is going very fast. I miss my kids being little!! I do enjoy things with Emily now too though. She likes to go shopping and we have good conversations about life. She is still young enough that she likes to tell me her secrets and dreams...I like that! She still likes to be tucked in at night and have a cuddle every now and then...I like that too!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMILY

I will post about her party later...we had fun!

Shout

We had a great weekend. Friday night was spent doing homework with the kids. We knew we had a busy weekend so we wanted to get it out of the way. Noah had gone to a friends after school...he was not impressed to come home and do homework!
On Saturday the kids went to Jr. Youth Councils in Brockville. Dana picked them up at 8:30 and then we had the whole day to ourselves. We took Mom and Dad to Lone Star for Mom's birthday. It was a great meal!
On Sunday we had a Youth Service at church. Here is a picture of the kids singing with Shout. Emily is the first one of the row on the left side...yellow shirt. Noah is 3rd from start of the row on the right...red shirt.

LOST

All I can say about last night's episode is WOW!!!. I am very disappointed that they are taking it off the air for 3 months but they did not disappoint with last night's show. Read about it here. It comes back on in Febraury with 16 new episodes. I can't wait!

Good movie

We decided to take the kids to the theater tonight...cheap night on Tuesdays. We saw Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause. We highly recommend it. We are big fans of 1 and 2 as well. The kids loved it. If you get a chance...you should go!
Another good thing...on Tuesdays they have a special. You pay $8.95 each and that includes your ticket as well as a popcorn and drink...not a small either...they were huge! (Noah had to pee twice...Emily once!)
It was a fun night!! The kids promised they would not be grumpy tomorrow either!! Here's hoping!

Very Sad

I find this time of year slightly depressing. I cleaned out my garden recently to get it ready for winter. I cut down all the plants that will regrow next year and threw out all the ones that won't. I took all the plant stands and decorations and put them all in the shed. I took down the decorative fence and threw it out ( I want stones put in next year). It looks...yucky in the front of my house. Those that know me, know that I love to garden and love my plants. I still have 16 plants in the house...I know, a little extreme...but they keep me happy until spring!

Trick or Treat

Both kids costumes from the summer(while camping) were great but not very good for trick or treating in the potential rain and with it being cold. So last minute costumes were thought of. Noah was Scooby-Doo 2 years ago and Emily decided to be a Sens player. She raided Rob's hockey bag and borrowed my jersey. I was very proud!!! I told her I could knock out a tooth and she could be Dany Heatley but she decided to be Daniel Alfredsson and keep her teeth.
Even though Noah was sick they had fun and got tons of goodies!!

Noah

So..I am standing at the schol yesterday waiting for kids. I am talking to the other moms like usual...one of them mentions that 2 kids in her sons class have scarlett fever. She went on to say that it started with a high fever and then a really sore throat....and then they got a rash on thier tummies and backs. She asked about Noah bing sick. I told her with onfidence that Noah didn't have that...he just had a cold. I head home and decide to check Noah's chest just to make myself feel better. Guess what I found...A RASH!!!!
So, after all the daycare kids leave we head over to the new clinic in Barrhaven...not sure what the wait will be...it is Halloween after all. Turns out we were the only ones in the place. The doctor (who had to be 80) checks Noah out and declares that he has Strep Throat. For those of you that knew me growig up will remember that I used to get Strep Throat every winter. He was put on antibiotics and is not allowed back at school until the rash disappears..he thinks probably Monday.
his throat is still really sore but with a full day of antibiotics today he should feelmuch better by tonight. the fever has broken so that's good!!!
Hopefully he will feel better soon.