Week 48

At some point during our Crazy week Gg and Daddy did this Science experiment that Mrs. Leppin taught Grace in Science class! Items needed: water bottle, baking powder, vinegar and balloon. You put the vinegar in the water bottle and the baking powder in the balloon. Put the balloon on the bottle; shake the baking powder into the vinegar and watch the balloon fill with air. Everyone ooo'ed and ahhh'ed over it!

Mommy got all pintrest'ed crazy and started experimenting with your hair! I loved the way it turned out!

My little elves helped mommy seal and stamp all the Christmas cards!

Everyone helped cut out Christmas cookies! I think that was my favorite thing we have done this holiday season.

On Saturday we went to the Nutcracker Ballet with Gramma Deb, Auntie Angela, Abby and Miss Kelly. It was so much fun. Gracie won 2 tickets because she entered a coloring contest at Crooked Tree. It was awesome!

After the show you were able to have photos with the ballerinas! Grace has decided she isn't much of a fan of ballet's without words.

Then... poor D.S. was taped to the wall because apparently the wise men and snowmen were naughty and didn't want D.S. to go back and tell Santa! Oh boy that was something I tell ya!

 

It has been quite a week around here! Our week ended well at school, Thursday poor Gg woke up puking. So, she missed the Steel Drum Band but by Friday she was feeling great so back to school she went! We were able to all go to the Frozen movie with the school which was really fun. Then before the Christmas parties we went to see Auntie Faith perform in the Madrigals! Wow they were incredible! The whole school was silent while they sang. Their voices are like Angels singing! 

Then Saturday we went to lunch with everyone before the Nutcracker. 

On Sunday we baked the rest of the cookies that needed to be done! We also made Boston Brown Bread and Thumbprint cookies in honor of Great Gramma's. It was sweet! It was a snowy blowy kind of day so we just laid low, cleaned up our rooms for Santa and wrote out some Thank you notes for some Christmas gifts we already received. Since we didn't go to the Spalding/Hoover Christmas Parties down state, Grandpa Bob and Grandma Sandee brought back your gifts for you! From the Spalding Party - Kailee received from Anna and she received a No Sew Blanket and  Ripley's Believe it or Not Fact book!

Gracie received from Kennedy and she received a tote FULL of craft things, paper, markers, crayons, modeling clay the list is long!

From the Hoover Party - 

Kailee received from Sebastian Jr. and she received 2 webkins - a spotted dog and a unicorn!

Gracie received from Emily and she received 2 webkins - a music note dog and a "blankie" elephant! 

 Great Gramma Hoover gave you each $10.

Great Grandpa Kittle gave you each $5.

Great Aunt Joy gave you each $25.

 See all the Thank you's you have wrote! 

Week 47

It's been a crazy week! We had K & G's Christmas Concerts which were so cute! K sang a Japanese song and G played an xylophone! It was the cutest thing EVAH! Kailee made the cute little baby Jesus below!

We decided Daddy needs to start a nail salon! He's really good at doing nails!

Oh D.S. hung panties on the tree again this year! Oye!

Hmm. 2014

Today I had a friend of mine ask me if I will continue doing this blog for you next year. She said she tried to do one for her family but did not have the time to keep up with it. Well lucky for us, for now, we have a lot of down time so it makes writing this blog a lot easier. I don't know what the future brings but I am going to try to do a weekly blog again. Essentially it's only 52 posts... which isn't too many at all; the tricky part is if my weeks end up "off" because I choose to go 10 days between posts. Turns out we are really off in our weeks for 2013 but I don't think you'll care - I managed to try and that's all I can do! . I think it's do-able. However I may have little daughter posts via Kailee because she's been asking recently about what a blog is, how to start one and what it means to write one. So, maybe she will want to start over Christmas break, or maybe not? But I will offer whenever I go to write - if she would like to - it gets a little tricky because I often write either early in the morning when I wake up at 5 a.m. or really late after you go to bed. So, we will see what happens. So, yes I will try to keep it up for 2014 but if I slack off a little please understand! xoxo

Week 46

Diego Sparkle came back! After his "straighten up" note from a week ago, you both proved to make the effort! D.S. left a letter saying he was having a great discussion with "Frosty" about God, Love and Friendship! All of which made you both giggle with delight!

D.S. being in the bathroom really freaked out Gg! So, we had to have a talk with him about appropriate places where he can and cannot be. I hope he listens! 

He also decided to decorated the bathroom! 

Diego Sparkle put lights in your rooms!

 

 

Mommy wrote this big long post about our week and now that I look at again, it's not there! Grrr. That's the down fall of technology! 

We had another short week of school, coming off our two day week the week before for Thanksgiving, this 4 day week was a good ease back into school. Poor Kk started to look real pale in school on Wednesday and ended up going home, she felt ok but was real tired and slept off and on all day. Then Thursday she was still a little pale looking so she stayed home with daddy who was REALLY sick! He was throwing up and actually Kk ended up taking care of him. You are such a good girl Kk! Mommy had to work on Friday; so I got "preapproval" from Mrs. Thola and went into work at 6:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. I managed to accomplish A LOT for Mrs. Santti. We spent our afternoon being cozy and playing games. Since daddy was feeling better, he went to work for the Fire Department downtown at the Open House. It was freezing - so cold that I knew it would have been a miserable evening so we stayed home and cozy with Christmas movies and popcorn! I love our movie nights! We played a lot of Apple to Apples! Which was super fun! Daddy is lucky duck! Gg thinks he's keeping a four leaf clover in his pocket - we agree! Saturday morning Gg had her first Sacrament: Penance which is really special because you "free your heart of anguish"! I wish mommy could have come; I feel terrible though - this flu/cold is miserable. Even Kk did it too and impressed everyone who was there. Gg went back to Father Thom and Kk went to Father Mike. It was amazing! I am so proud of you both! Then that night mommy still wasn't feeling well and daddy took to you both to Mr. Mark & Ms. Jayna's house for a Goose/Duck dinner. You had fun, you played Apples to Apples with some other girls and then daddy brought you both home about 8 p.m. where without argument you  put on jammies and went to bed! We spent Sunday being little elves! You helped mommy wrap oodles of goodies for family Christmas parties! That was really fun because you both are getting so good at wrapping now! I am in awe of your abilities! It's quite impressive! Then we played more Apples to Apples and watched a little of The Grinch! You both are being exasperated with Diego Sparkle and his antics too! When you woke up Sunday morning - he had drew on your school pictures - giving you both mustaches and elf hats! Silly elf! I hope to get more pictures in the coming weeks but you both are in charge of cleaning up his antics so, before I get a photo you have it cleaned up! xoxo

Week 45

Monday night we had Kk's Choir Concert! It was so cute! She was full of some sweet smiles and giggles that made our hearts sing! Every child sung beautifully! It was incredible to watch you tonight Kk. You were very confident! I hope you do this again next year!!

My little hoolies all ready for the concert! Look at those precious faces! You are growing up too fast!

It was a short Monday/Friday week this week! Love Thanksgiving break, only two days of school and it felt SO GOOD! We also picked up Kk's Gordon Food Service stuff that came in... Mommy bagged and sorted items and Kk and daddy delivered all $426 worth of goodies to family and friends. The $1700 raised will go toward field trips for their class! Which sounds super fun!!

Our short week has brought relaxing on Wednesday... well kinda. You played outside in all the snow. Then we spent the next few hours cleaning bedrooms and the basement. We finally have the basement holiday ready! We discussed about giving nice not used anymore toys away and you each made some great choices.

We went to Gramma Deb & Grampa Lou's for Thanksgiving. It was so much fun! Auntie Angela, Uncle Josh, Jordy and Abby were there! We spent the day playing, coloring, making turkey's and having fun!  Gramma Deb came back to our house to spend the night so we could go shopping in the morning. It was really lots of fun!

Friday Auntie Angela brought Abby and Jordy over. Abby stayed with you hoolies and played for a few hours while we went Black Friday shopping. When we came back,  you weren't ready to say goodbye yet. So Abby Doo stayed until 4:30 and then I met Auntie Angela in Walloon for a swap!

Saturday was a super busy day! You both slept in until 7! Then our crazy day began... we were in the Christmas Parade with the Fire Department. Then we went to Aunt Suzie & Uncle Joe's for Suzie & Kaitlyn's Christmas Party! It's a girls only party so that was fun! After that we had to go to Grandpa Bob & Grandma Sandee's for Thanksgiving dinner and to celebrate Gg's birthday finally!

For some reason I cannot upload your birthday pictures Gg. I'm sorry! But I promise I took them! I love you!

Week 44

So it turns out that my "weeks" are a wee bit off... some weeks were more like 10 days... and that sorta kinda made the week count off - by a week. Awe well, at least I am trying! I decided that blogging every day last year was a big commitment but once a week turned out to be more do-able. I am quite proud that I managed to keep doing this for this long. So far you seem to love the blog books, which I know will be great memories one day, many moons from now. You love reading about when you were itty bitty's.(I do too!) Telling you how funny you were and how reading your stories makes my heart pitter patter. I miss our baby days my darlings but love our time now just as much; just in a new way! 

On Sunday we had a bit of a big storm roll through. The news kept saying that the conditions were just right for a possible tornado, however even though the gusty winds and pounding rain made it's appearance nothing bad ever happened. It actually was kind of fun - we decided to set up the Christmas tree! So, we spent all evening unpacking Christmas boxes, reminiscing, and enjoying one another's company as the rain/sleet pelleted the house.

 

Every morning Gg wants to snuggle mommy... and Saturday morning she sat in my lap until it was time for swim lessons!

This Saturday was our last swim lesson. If they offer them again in January we will definitely partake!

And briefly throughout the snow storm on Saturday we had peeks of sunshine. It sure was pretty!

Purpose is Important!

I hope you see the common denominator here girlies, it's keep your focus -- don't let others interfere! You have control over your actions and I hope every action you put forth has a purpose to better the world.