Merry Candy Coated Snow-mas!

It has been a week of filled with family, friends, cookies, presents, and snow! You have to love those weeks that you have no idea what day it is and your biggest concern is what are we eating/drinking next!? The kids had a wonderful holiday! Keira was so excited that Santa, or “Tanta” as Quinn calls him, was coming to OUR house! We made special peanut butter cookies filled with chocolate for him and sprinkled reindeer food out over the driveway. Did you know reindeer absolutely love cheerios? Mix in some glitter so they can see it and you are ready! We had quite the build up to the actual arrival of Santa as we visited both sets of grandparents, uncles, aunts, and many friends the week before and then raced back to our house with the winter storm on our tail as we made it back just in time to get snowed in and enjoy a white Christmas!

Dad and Q enjoy their gifts!


Uncle Josh helps Quinn build a challenging puzzle!

Grandpa D's favorite thing to give the kids are mini boxes of sugar coated, yummy cereal- Quinn's gotta have his POPS!! He treasures carrying around the box and finishing every single one- except for the ones he shares with Abbey dog!

I think this was our 85th attmpt to capture that famous kids in front of the Christmas tree together picture...

Challenging!

The best we could get-

Quinn loved his new train table from "tanta" and was double fisted with trains all day- even at nap! Similar to our visits to the toystore- just TRY and pry a train out of his hand- you shall experience the true wrath of Quinn!

All Keira wanted for Christmas--- a BLENDER!!!! She immediately started making everyone shakes!

She also loved her new doll bed and diaper changing station!

Keira received the best little cookbook ever (see picture below). The same cookbook that Nana, Uncle Brock, and Daddy used to learn how to cook- so sweet! We made yellow cake cupcakes from the book together and I can't wait to share the joy of cooking with my little chef!

NAP TIME! WHAT A WEEK!!!

Daddy loves loves loves the snow and I'm glad we got to enjoy some winter fun sledding!

Did I tell you? Daddy LOVES the snow!!!!!

Making Merry

We had a wonderful time picking out our tree- though we didn't make it to a tree farm this year (promise, will do that next year), we did make it three blocks to the ACE Hardware store to get our real tree. And yes, I'm cussing the needles falling off and vowing to go to a tree farm and cut it ourselves next year! Really!

Keira loved wearing the tree skirt around as we sang "Oh Keira Tree, Oh Keira Tree" to her!


Quinn picked out these special window stickers during our trip to ACE- they look just like jello jigglers and, according to him, taste just like them too! Notice the bite marks!? YUMMY!

Keira loved looking at each and every ornament, taking stock of every ornament with her picture on it, every snowman, every Santa. The best line of the day was Keira exclaiming "SANTA! TIME TO GET YOUR HO ON!!"

Our gingerbread house! Keira was very precise and careful! She also ate MUCH of the "glue" and house decor!

It seems our new family tradition is to go see the old fashioned Christmas parade downtown. Many, many.....yawn..... many horses, much poop, but the kids LOVED it!

Watching with her BFF Hannah and Quinn!

Running around in our Christmas Jammies! Quinn was too fast for pictures! My attempt to get that so cute picture of them in front of the Christmas tree in their jammies- FAIL!