Christmas 2016

Some pictures so far- we celebrate with the DeFrang side this weekend.

Christmas Lights Cruise

Lights, Christmas music and candy on our traditional cruise.  Giving kids candy and trapping them in carseats for over an hour?  I don't see the problem...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ_1hTdpT7g&feature=youtu.be

Christmas Eve at home 

We had Caesar salad, crab and baked potatoes and opened some presents

Getting ready to sleep under the Christmas tree

Christmas morning

Charlie again proving that a cardboard box is the best gift! 

Watching their new tablets under the tree

Blaine Christmas

Double trouble

Scratch those winnings, Nicholas!

New blanket from Rosemary

 Charlie got Pieface and had to try it out right away

Holiday Fun at School

I helped Charlie's class decorate gingerbread houses on Friday.  Love being able to pop over quick and help out!  I wonder how long Charlie will be glad he goes to the same school his mom teaches at...

Today Nick and I attended a Gingerbread Musical by his class.  So cute!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY1opqPIwSk&feature=youtu.be

Weekend

We went to Breakfast with Santa, Forager Holiday Fun and Sleigh Rides (more like wagon rides), and did some Christmas baking.  We also ended up with about 8 inches of snow so we're really in the Christmas spirit now!

First Snow

We finally got enough snow to play in.  Charlie was out for 4 hours and came in soaking wet!

Holiday Magic

I took Claire to Janet Lang's Holiday Magic show.  She was especially excited to see her dance teacher, Ryann.  I have to say that it was well done!  I really enjoyed it and so did Claire.

Holiday Season!

The kids stayed at Grandma and Papa's and "helped" put up their tree so Nick and I could do our annual shopping trip.  We're almost done buying and wrapping gifts.  Whew!

We put our tree up and decorated the house on Saturday and went to our first movie as a family today.  We went to see Trolls.  It was so good!

Thanksgiving

We spent time with the Blaine's and DeFrang's this year.  Good food and good people make us happy (and tired)!

Blast from the Past

We have a 1950's dress-up day in Kindergarten when we get to the 50th day of school.  It was extra fun this year because Charlie got to dress up too!

Weekend with Mom

Deer hunting means a weekend with just mom.

We went to Oxbow on Saturday.

 

 We baked cookies, watched the Vikings and went for a short bike ride on Sunday.