The Holidays - 2012

Well, Christmas and New Years has come and gone. And with it a lot of memories built here in our casa. Our house was filled with wonderful cheery smells and sounds. Lots of giggles and excitement when on Christmas morning our 7 year old woke us up with so much excitement.... he came, he came, he's real!! Come on get up!!.... how can you not get up and enjoy looking at their faces as we place baby Jesus in the manger (because HE is born!) and of course open the loot Santa left!!

Nifty wrapping!

Here are the pictures starting with the weekend before Christmas when we visited their aunt and uncle up north!

Patiently waiting for the obligatory picture before opening their presents.

Ms. Jackie!

Baby Jesus and our Manger.

Lewis - the elf!

Cookies ready for Santa!

Wahoo!!

Merry Christmas!

Lego world!

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! (this is a few days AFTER Christmas that we had quite a bit of snow)

Cold Cold Days!

This weekend we decided to take a trip up to Cleveland to visit family. Well, it was about 0 degrees and about -10 with the wind chill! BRRRR!!! My poor kids, I felt like a bad mother taking them out of the house in that weather in addition to taking them to the coldest area of Cleveland!! We were on the east side, right where the snow belt starts... yep right where the lake decides to blow air! The roads were a mess and visibility at one point was really bad - so much that we could not see the car in front of us! We survived and stayed for the weekend, mainly indoors.
Most schools around this area closed today, due to the cold weather. Day cares though are open, since there is no bus system the kids need to wait for!

Anyway, I doubt I'll go anywhere this weekend or the next or the next. I think I'll stay around here and hang out till this weather decides to warm up :) !!!!

Now I gotta go break up a fight between my almost 5 y.o. and my 15 month old! YAY!