Winter Wonderland!

We had the most beautiful snowfall this week! The whole family (grandparents and all) headed out enjoy it! The snowflakes were so huge and everything looked so peaceful. The pictures speak for themselves.

Would you believe this picture was just taken in the woods behind our house. One of the perks of living in the beautiful Annapolis Valley. Literally only 300 meters to the forest. LOVE IT!

There's a great little sledding hill in the trails out back as well and we had so much fun (and many laughs) sliding down. We even coaxed grand-maman down the hill once! What a fun family day!

I have a great video that you can actually hear Michael laughing the best belly laugh EVER going down the hill with grand-papa. In the back ground you can hear grand-maman screaming "Jette toi a terre Michel si tu perds controle!". It's hysterical but I can't seem to load it. I think it's too big or something?!?

I love this picture of my parents. We had such a wonderful holiday together! I'm so thankful they came to Nova Scotia to spend Christmas with us again this year! xo

Gingerbread House!

There's a picture of me taken at my Grand-maman's house in New Liskeard surrounded by all my cousins and we are all busy decorating a huge gingerbread house. I have the biggest smile on my face and I'm having the best time. I think I was around 4 or 5 years old. Anyway, the point is I wanted to re-create that for Abbey and Michael. I bought the gingerbread house making kit and waited for Grand-maman and Grand-papa to be here for extra hands.

I put all the decorating candies in different bowls and away we went. Michael used the "four candies in my mouth and one on the house" method. Abbey concentrated very hard while decorating placing every candy just so. It was quite humorous.

Well the whole thing was over within 20 minutes and they were ready to move on to the next activity. Maybe next year we'll be more successful!!! Mom had fun though! (and I have great pictures to scrapbook ha!ha!)

Christmas Day!

Santa was so good to us again this year! I don't know how he fit down the chimney with all those toys?!? ha!ha! We are so, so lucky and are very thankful for all our blessings.

Steve and I had so much fun getting everything ready for Christmas day. It's so wonderful to live Christmas through their eyes (and of course to share it with my parents as well). Michael was the first one up Christmas morning and when he spotted the full stockings outside his bedroom on the banister, he ran back into the bedroom to wake Abbey up. He kept saying "Wake up! Pere Noel, Pere Noel!!" It was too cute!

It was worth a million dollars to see their ecstatic little faces on Christmas morning. I already can't wait for next year! What a fun (and exhausting) morning!

Christmas Eve!

T'was the night before Christmas and all through the house not a twin was stirring...but two parents were running around like chickens with their heads cut off getting all the toys ready. We were smarter this year and got most of the big toys set up and batteries installed so they were good to go Christmas morning. The stockings were hung on the banister with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there (or even better Grand-maman and Grand-papa hee!hee!)

My Mom's friend Denyse made my Christmas stocking when I was born, then gave me Michael and Abbey's at my Baby Shower and this year Stephen got his. Very exciting! Just looking at them makes me happy! They are so beautiful (and so BIG!!!)

We set out milk and cookies for Santa. Abbey was convinced that Santa would prefer chocolate milk.

Christmas Eve day also means the end of the Advent calendar chocolates. Sad for Abbey and Michael but sad for choco-holic Mommy too!

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

1 more sleep...

until my parents arrive! yay! I can't wait! It's been nice having a few days off before their arrival to get things ready. First, the house needed to be cleaned (damn that cleaning lady who got posted! Ugh). Second, haircuts (there will be tons of pictures taken in the next 48 hours!)Then all the laundry to be finished (if not my Mom would do it and I'd rather spend the time with her then watching her do chores!) and finally cooking (no I'm not joking...I learned 2 new recipes which I prepared today...and they are actually good!). Not to mention gift shopping, grocery shopping, wrapping, all the while entertaining three year old twins! I'm not complaining...I'm loving every minute of it!
Here's a picture I took this afternoon of the kids in their sled. Steve took them for a walk in the forest and then slidding on the hill out back while Mommy concentrated in the kitchen (I'm new to this cooking thing! lol! and he wants to encourage it!!!!)

Ha!ha!ha!

If this doesn't make you laugh out loud...there's a problem! I've seen this a hundred times and I still giggle when I see it! Enjoy! (click on link!)

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Another Snow Day!

There's nothing quite like hearing "All schools in Kings County - Annapolis Regional School Board are closed" first thing in the morning to get you in a great mood! Don't get me wrong, I LOVE my job but I also LOVE bonus time with Abbey and Michael! Today we decided to make our own PlayDoh! The fact that we have a whole set of PlayDoh containers in the craft drawer is besides the point. Making it together is much more FUN!

Here's some pictures of our fun little project this morning! :-)

Here's the non-cooking PlayDoh recipe....

1 cup of flour

1 cup of boiling water

2 tbsp cream of tartar

1/2 cup of oil

food colouring

Mix and knead together and have fun!

We sure did!

Okay so that took 45 minutes...what's next?!? hee!hee! Unfortunately it's WAY too windy to go outside! Maybe we'll venture out to the post office to mail Christmas cards! (I know it's brutal that I haven't sent them yet!) Better late then never right?!?

In With The New...

So it's not really "Out with the old, In with the new", it's more "Down with the old now that we have new!" (down as in downstairs!)

On Friday, Steve came to school at dismissal time to say that he had made babysitting arrangements for Abbey and Michael and that we were going to Halifax to pick up our new TV and out for a non-fast food supper. (exciting in itself!!!) It was so much fun! We went to a great sushi restaurant on Spring Garden Rd and then picked up Steve's new prized possession...50 inch plasma TV. As we were setting it up, Steve remind me that if I felt the TV was too heavy and slipping to sacrifice myself (how nice!!! ha!ha!) Here's a picture of our old TV (getting ready to move downstairs).

and here's a picture of our new TV being installed.

and like that wasn't enough...Sears called to say we had an item to be picked up yesterday. I called my parents to see if they knew anything about it (and of course they did but wouldn't tell us what it was) Imagine our surprise when we discovered a new brown leather LazyBoy for our rec room downstairs YAY! It's gorgeous! Here's a picture of the LazyBoy they bought us two years ago (Abbey not included! hee!hee!)

and here's our new chair downstairs. Isnt' it awesome!! I'm a very lucky girl!

SNOW DAY!

I LOVE Snow Days!!! I especially love them when it turns out to be beautiful outside and I can enjoy it with Abbey and Michael. With all the work going on downstairs while we finish the basement it was nice to get out and get away from it for a while. (SOO much dust! Ugh!)

I love this picture of Abbey in the freshly fallen snow. I must have taken 10 pictures of the kids playing this morning and they all have the "fake smile" going ...BUT I took a totally candid one of Abbey when she fell over and it's my favourite. Go figure?!?

We had so much fun...making snowmen, shovelling and having a snow ball fight. Then we came in and enjoyed hot chocolate and a fun lunch! Amazing how many cool things you can do when you are not on a time line! hee!hee!

Hope everyone is enjoying their day as much as I am! It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! (to quote my cousin Claire...love you xo!)