Merry Christmas!

Just wanted to wish our friends and family a very Merry Christmas! I am signing off for a few days. We will leave tomorrow afternoon and head down to St. Louis. We will be there until New Year's Day. We have many Christmas celebrations to attend and are looking forward to seeing everyone!

Christmas Parties!

I had the chance to go to both Kate and Jackson's Christmas Parties at school this year. It was a busy day because they were both on Thursday. Thankfully Kate's was in the morning and Jackson's was in the afternoon. Kate's was a low key party with some snacks and then their regular end of the day routine. Jackson's was much more high energy!!! I was in charge of the craft and I was exhausted by the time I left. Here are a few pics from the day:





As silly as I thought it was that Jackson's party was on Thursday (they still had school on Friday) we were glad it was since school was canceled on Friday!

Winter Wonderland!

We had an ice storm last night. Not as bad as expected - but school was called off! Roads were mostly just slushy but the ice made our street look like a winter wonderland.
Her are some pictures we took this evening.

Wordless Wednesday

Santa!

We went last night to see Santa (or HoHo as Kate calls him). Kate is scared to death of Santa or any life size character for that matter. Ask her about the Billiken some time:) Our local Parks Dept. held a big Christmas Event last night at one of the parks. They had face painting, balloon animals, games, crafts and of course - Santa! Jackson went prepared with his wish list he made earlier in the day(he didn't want to forget). Kate claimed she was going to sit on Santa's lap with Jackson and was very excited.
Then we walked in the door and she started shaking and held on for dear life!!!! We watched from afar as Jackson had a chat with Santa and then after he handed Kate a piece of candy, she decided she would at least talk to him! Here are a few pics.