Happy New Year

Hello! I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. After a week and a half in St. Louis, we are still recovering from the holidays. On Monday it looked like a toy store in my living room. Jackson said it was like Christmas again! We got home late on Sunday night and of course all of our toys from Christmas morning were still out and then we added all the presents we received from St. Louis. I am happy to say that by the end of the day I had all of the suitcases unpacked and most of the toys put away. I'm still going through toys and rearranging, but hopefully I will have everything organized by the end of the week.
Both Jackson and Kate went back to school on Tuesday. It was nice to get back to our usual routines. I am spending this week getting my house back together, but hopefully next week I will post some pictures of our holidays.
I hope to hear from some of you soon. Simply leave a comment in the comment section of any post. I will try my hardest to respond.

Have a great day!
Melissa

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.

Kate's First Day of Preschool

Here are some pics of Kate's first day of preschool today. She looks so happy and carefree in these pictures - however, she was not that way when I left her this morning!





She had to wear her "glasses"! She is so funny!
I'll let you know how her day went and post some more pics of Jackson's first day.

Melissa