Merry Christmas!

The kids had a blast making Christmas cookies. I put them in and took them out of the oven, they did everything else. They mixed them, cut them, and decorated them. They worked together and did not fight, it was nice. Saige decorated each one of hers different. Rylan just through some frosting on and went straight to the sprinkles, lots and lots of sprinkles. Unfortunately when all was said and done they were inedible. I'm sure you probably could have eaten them but the frosting was gross. But they had a good time anyway, that's all that counts. Hope everyone has a great Christmas!

It's almost Christmas!

The last couple weeks have been a blur but we are ready. Tomorrow I'm taking Saige Christmas shopping. I take her to the dollar store and let her pick out something for everyone all by herself. Some people end up with something neat and others not so much. Two years ago my dad got a blow up punching bag with a hole in it, lol. Then we are going to start on cookies. That should be a blast, lol. She has been busy making homemade cards and writing everything all by herself this week and she still isn't done. I am so proud of her.

Last week our Daisy troop decorated cookies for a bake sale. Saige had a great time, all the girls did and we did well on the sale too. This week the troop had a Christmas party. Next month we start selling cookies. Hopefully we will earn enough for a really fun trip. She is loving Girl Scouts (and I don't mind it either) we finally got her uniform smock. She has been putting it on after school and wearing it ever since, she's so proud and it's so cute.

Today was the Kindergarten concert. It was really good, everyone did really well. It was all the Kindergarten kids and they all had a small part to do. Her class all had these really cute Rudolph teeshirts made from their hand and foot prints. They made them last week for the field trip to the play Rudolph. Robby was able to go in late and got to go, Saige was so thrilled to have her daddy there and Rylan behaved through the whole thing.

All in all, It was a good day. I let them stay up and watch Frosty and they both went to bed without a hassle. Rylan seems to be getting excited about Santa. I know he doesn't quite get it yet but everyone keeps asking him if Santa is coming and he see how excited his sister is and it seems to be contagious. On a funny note, it was almost a perfect day. Robby has spent days digging out his remote controlled cars and the remotes for them. He even cleaned the basement, that's how much effort he put in to finding them. He finally found the remote for the big ones this morning for him and Rylan. When we got home from the concert and I was getting dinner ready, Saige came out and asked me for her scissors to cut a string. I thought nothing of it and told her where they were- she came back and said don't worry mom I got those strings off, with the antennas off the cars and remotes in her hand. He probably isn't going to find it as funny as I did but she WAS trying to help.

Winter already?

I blinked and it's almost Christmas. We've been busy. I am almost done shopping and Yesterday we all took the day to do Christmas stuff. We got our tree, Saige picked it out... it's interesting. We decorated the house and took the kids to see Lights on the Lake. It was fun. Rylan LOVES Christmas lights so he had a blast. IT was pretty cool, I tried to get pictures but they didn't turn out so well. It's 2 miles of lights. Then we came home a decorated the tree, This is my favorite part. Getting out all the ornaments and remembering where they came from. The kids did most of it so there are 3 or 4 branches on the bottom with 20 ornaments, lol.
We finally got snow today that has stuck around anyway. Saige got off the bus begging to play. Got them changed and they played until dark. It was just starting to accumulate here but it was good sticky snow. She went out and immediately wailed Rylan with the worlds tiniest snowball. I thought for sure he was going to ball but he laughed and tried to get her back. Mostly he just stuck his glove in the snow and threw a couple flakes but they had fun. He fell over backwards twice trying to catch them with his tongue like Saige.