Merry Christmas Eve
Wednesday, December 24, 2008 | Comments (0)

(2 years 7 months 3 weeks 2 days)

Poor Riley, she woke up complaining that she had a head ache... I figured it was because she didn't get much rest the night before. I got her dressed, gave her some Tylenol and we all headed to Cracker Barrel for our annual Christmas Eve breakfast. Unfortunately, Riley puked in the parking lot. Scott and I figured it must have been due to her headache and then the drive to the restaurant.... she said she felt better so we played it by ear. Of course as soon as the food came out Riley puked again. Poor thing! Scott was the man and took the brunt of it, and took her into the bathroom to finish and clean her up. I had the woman package up his breakfast and I confiscated a few more of their maple syrup bottles and we headed home for Riley to take a long nap. Reese had this stuff LAST Thursday and it lasted for about 6 hours.

True to form, as soon as Riley woke up and we hung out around the house to rest Riley felt right as rain and we loaded up and headed over to Scott's parents house for Linda's annual lasagna dinner. It was delicious as always and nice low key event. As soon as we got there we all took photos before the kids got WAYYYY WAYYYYYY out of hand. The photos didn't turn out too bad with a tripod and timer!

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After we had our delicious meal the girls opened up ONE Christmas Eve gift.... Riley was wanting to dig right into all the gifts, hers or not.... but they both were thrilled to see that we were given 2 more cars for our train at home.

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We packed up and headed home where we went right into our Christmas Eve traditions of putting out cookies, carrots and milk for Santa and his reindeer.

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Added the new tradition of sprinkling reindeer food out in the front yard that Reese made at preschool last week.

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The girls also sat down with Dad and wrote out their letters to santa to hang with their stockings and signed them.

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And we finished up the night with me reading Twas the Night Before Christmas while Scott cleaned up the dining room, complete with vacuuming! I love my husband. He said he wanted it to look nice to start out on video.

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The kids went fast to sleep and then the Elves helped set everything up, assemble everything and stuff the stockings. The next morning Reese said she heard Santa coming down the chimney!

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Merry Christmas Eve Eve
Tuesday, December 23, 2008 | Comments (0)

(2 years 7 months 3 weeks 1 day)

Scott's family came over to our house to have a light dinner before the rest of the Christmas festivities begin. Scott's company gave us a wonderful ham, on top of the huge bin of 3 different gourmet popcorn to the kids. The popcorn was long since eaten before tonight, but the ham was saved out special for 2 days worth of ham sandwiches! Delicious ham... just the right thickness, saltiness and fat content, which was almost nonexistent. Thank you Sunnydale and Scott's company.

I also made my first Broccoli Cheese Soup from Linda's recipe. Scott had gone out and gotten me all my ingredients, but had accidentally picked up the wrong noodles. I was a bit apprehensive about them, they were thin spaghetti, not the thin rice noodles, but to my surprise, it was a good mistake! Tom even complimented me on the soup and how he liked it having more noodles. The girls ate it up better too since it wasn't too terribly soupy. Both ways work well, but I think we'll stick with the thicker noodles when it's just us, though Linda did give me the right noodles to try as well a few days later.
 

Plesantly Surprised!
Sunday, December 21, 2008 | Comments (0)

(2 years 7 months 2 weeks 6 days)

Oh my goodness! I was pleasantly surprised to see that the photo I had submitted to the Norton Post with all the kids not only made it into the paper, but the front page this week!

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Reese is beside Santa holding Ashton and Riley is 2 down from Reese on the floor on the left.
 

Poor Riley
Saturday, December 20, 2008 | Comments (0)

(2 years 6 months 2 months 5 days)

I've always heard of children having sobbing fits being asked to sit on Santa's lap, however today, Riley was BESIDE herself when we told her that Santa wasn't at the place where we had seen him before.

We felt so sorry for her that I went online and had Santa make a story just for her:

She must have watched this video a hundred times and it made her feel much much better.
 

Lights at Lake Anna
Saturday, December 20, 2008 | Comments (0)

(2 years 7 months 2 weeks 5 days)

We decided, on a whim, that we hadn't gone by to see the Christmas Lights at Lake Anna in Barberton. We hustled up, bundled up and skaddled over there.... however, it was a wee bit colder than we thought, but the girls enjoyed riding.... though as Reese told us "I'm freezing my little butt off!"

The lights were beautiful as always, and I think that they did add a few more displays this year to mix things up a bit.

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