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!)

The invitations...

=One afternoon last week I sat down to write out Abbey and Michael's birthday party invitations. They were very curious about what I was doing so I gave them the extras to fill out. They had so much fun!

When I put the invitations into the envelopes, Abbey asked to put hers in too...sooooo every family got two invites; one from me and one from the kids. Very cute if I do say so myself!

SO much concentration! Check out my righty and my lefty!

DONE!

Yeeessssss! My report cards are DONE! Apparently it IS possible to write an entire class set in one long weekend! ha!ha! My reports will be exceptionally difficult this year because I have 9 students in my class for the third year in a row! How many different ways can you tell a parent how their kid is doing?!? Anyway I did my best and I'm happy with them...I always worry until the day they go home and then...well...you can't worry anymore right?!?

Here's a picture of my report card work station...complete chaos...but organized chaos!!

SURPRISE!

A week ago at this time I walked into my house after school to find my parents sitting on my couch holding my children! Whoa! I couldn't believe my eyes! After screaming and crying, I finally composed myself. What a wonderful surprise!!!
We had a super visit; played outside, had a great lunch at Wheaton's, laughed and ate so so well (Thanks to my Mom!)...and then Hurricane Noel came. High winds, tons of rain and no power!!! Who could have predicted the weather!?!
No tropical storm could damper our spirits though and I am already counting down the days until their Christmas visit. Thanks Mom and Dad for making my month!

Halloween!

For the last two months Abbey and Michael have said they wanted to be dragons for Halloween...that is until Abbey saw our 4 year old neighbour Eva dressed in a princess costume. Needless to say, she changed her mind quite quick. SO a dragon and a princess it was then!

I must have taken 35 pictures before going trick-or-treating and believe it or not these are the three best. Pathetic I know! They just would not cooperate (at the same time!!)

We had such a great time and the kids LOVED dressing up and getting all the candy. It was a wonderful evening! We had around 80 kids to our door...a far cry from the 9 we had on the first Halloween we were here. Halloween has never really been my favourite holiday but I'm seeing it in a whole different way now that I have kids of my own! Can't wait for next year!

This is my friend Alisa and her family. They win the prize for the best family costume EVER!!! She's pregnant so she went as the oven, her husband went as the Bun Maker and her little boy Jeremy went as a loaf of Wonder bread. Genius eh?!? I just had to post their picture because it's such a great idea!!!

Hope everyone had a spooktacular Halloween! Boo!Boo!Boo!