Where Have We Been?

Where have we been for the last month? Mostly buried in snow, and then frigid weather. I blame my lack of posting on an uncooperative blogger/picassa site. Sometimes it doesn't want to load my pictures and sometimes it does. I do take photos, but it stacks up. The holidays came and went. We had a great time. There was loads of snow and lots of family visiting. A sledding hill was built by my brothers-in-law. Well the girls and I started it, but they made it oh so much better. We all attended First Night which wasn't too frigid compared to the subzero tempteratures we have been enduring this week. Here are the activites in pictures...

Decorating gingerbreadmen!

The gift of a great new book!

Post 700

As a small defense in how long it has been since I posted anything (over a month as my mother point out last weekend) I did try topost last weekend but I had to fix my album so that I would have enough space to download more pictures. To be honest last weekend was a bit crazy as you will soon see.


Rounding out for post 700 I present you all of the things that I have not written about in weeks! Also known as finally downloading the pictures form my camera! We visted Maine over Thanksgiving. I mentioned to my mother that if she ever felt the need to just wip off more mittens our mitten basket seems to be full of singles. Not really sure where the other mate wanders off to. We left on a Saturday where she had begun a mitten for Chloe out of left over yarn she had from other projects. Four days later on Wednesday these arrived in the mail. Grammy is a knitting amchine I tell you!

 

 

I captured this very sweet moment of the girls reading together one Sunday morning after breakfast. Alexa had dug out all of our favorite Sandra Boynton books that we can not possibly part with. 

 



Chloe had a birthday since I last posted too. Prior to her birthday party (which was a slumber party) I let her open the present from Grammie Eva. Grammie had gotten her a new sleeping bag. Since she has started attending sleepovers she has borrowed her sister's sleeping bag as she found her old Winnie the Pooh sleeping bag to be too embarrassing to use.

She was pretty excited!

The party was what you would expect with a total of seven children and me, but they all had fun and the house is still standing.

We decorated our Christmas tree.

And the dog...

Chloe requested a chocolate cream pie for her birthday this year instead of cake.

She opened her presents on the morning of her birthday.

And there you have it! Camera is empty and you are up to date. Hopefully it will not take me another month to post, but I make no promises!

Christmas Part 2

With eleven people packed into one house there was lots of time for hanging out with family.

Alexa was chatting with Aunt Andrea.

Uncle Ryan peeled his clementines in shapes that Annabel and alexa thought looked great as hats.

I even caught Chloe voluntarily reading to her sister.

Chloe spent a lot of time outside playing with Grammie Eva's goose and two ducks.

Chloe also created this amazing T-rex chasing an Archeopterix in the snow. 

After nightly games of Bannanagrams my kids became addicted to it.

Christmas Part 1

Playing with your food is big at our house for Christmas. This year was no different. With 4 kids around there was a lot of lobster fun to go around.

Chloe got started the night before. As you can see Cabbie is very interested in them.

We spread them out on the table to give everyone a good view.

Alexa was really proud of herself. She really had to work up some courage to pick one up.

Good eating!