eLF vOmIT....

So I went a little farther this year with the decorating!! The kids and I put up Christmas lights outside a few weeks ago.....and with one strand left over I had been contemplating what I would do with them. Then Evan asked if we could hang them in the house. I laughed at first, because where would you hang icicle lights inside?? Well......in the 'O' of course!! So we set out to put the last strand up. I then unpluged the red lights that were already up there and we flipped on the switch. I thought it looked great!! Evan asked where the red lights were......so we plugged the red back in. Well then we had red and white, but were missing the green. SO.....off to Wal-Mart we went for some green balls to hang.

I laughed the whole time I was stringing the decorations up. Why you ask......Many years ago when I lived with my college roommates some of us decided we wanted to decorate our house for Christmas. So we hung balls from the ceiling and decorated the crap out of the house......well not everyone in the house was a big fan of Christmas. So when said roommate woke up, she proclaimed: "It looks like an elf threw-up in here!" And we all had a good laugh. So I had a good laugh last night while I was putting these finishing touches up and thinking of Beth the whole time!! :)

Good Morning :)

So this is what most of my mornings look like now.......and for now, I'm just fine with that! The funniest part is that most of the time I don't even hear them come in. I just wake up and there they are!! Little sneakers.

dig, dig, dig, kick, kick, kick

So the kids just wrapped up their first swim lesson at the YMCA. I took Evan through several parent-tot sessions when he was much younger, but this was the first one he went through by himself.....and this is the first one Ella has ever been in. Evan is much more cautious than Ella ever was, so they are pretty much at the same level right now. She's a brave soul when it comes to being in the water. Evan improved GREATLY since the first day of class and I couldn't be more proud of him!! We of course will start our next session next week, and more than likely continue them throughout the year.

I was pretty much stuck with this camera angle.....which was horrible. Parents were allowed pool-side, but when I attempted that, Ella thought she could come over and sit with me instead of participate with her class......so needless to say me being pool-side was short lived. So hopefully you can make out which kids are mine!! :)

GingerBread Junction

Today we took the kids up to the YWCA to have some fun at their GingerBread Junction event. I had a pretty good feeling that Ella would only eat the decorations......and of course she didn't disappoint!! She was pretty excited at first to spread the frosting on the house and put some decorations on......but it was short lived. Evan really got into it and did a great job at covering his whole house!! Megan's kiddos did great too. I don't think Holden wanted to get his house too dirty, so his is about as bare as Ella's :) But all the kids did a great job.

Santa was there too, so Ella was sure to tell him that she wanted Barbie for Christmas!! Such a fun event!! The best part.....we didn't have to put together the houses....and we didn't have to clean up the mess!! Thanks for inviting us Jamie!!