George is Back!

This past weekend was fairly quiet overall.  Saturday morning we did go to the kids school for a really fun event.  They had a holiday shop where kids can go in and shop for their siblings or parents or whoever and each gift is less than $5.  Then it gets wrapped up before they ever come out.  The boys had so much fun doing this and I think it will make Christmas morning very special for them to get gifts from each other that they picked out and pay for themselves.  The event also had various crafts and activities for the kids and a raffle and silent auction.  We were excited to find out the next day that we won a 4 person VIP pass, including a pre game and post game "experience" and a signed soccer ball from DC United.  So, we look forward to going to that next season.

Then, Logan had a birthday party for one of the girls in our play group.  He had a blast doing that.  I was a bit embarrassed to show up at the birthday party with him in full (tiger) makeup.  When he said he wanted to get it done at the boys school, I completely wasn't thinking about the birthday party he was going straight to!  Oh well!

The rest of the day was spent running errands and doing things around the house.

Sunday morning the kids were super excited to see that their elf, George, was making an appearance again this year!  George brought them donuts and presents with Christmas PJ's in it!  He also wrote a letter reminding them to be good.

Sunday evening we brought dinner and dessert over to Aunt Meghan, who was recovering from foot surgery.  Without sports right now our weekends are relatively calm, which is a nice change of pace.

Visit to Santa

I took the younger two to the mall today to pick up a few gifts and we decided to see Santa too.  Leah was unsure the whole time in line, but was hanging in there because of the promise that Santa had lollipops.  Well, as soon as she was placed on Santa's lap she started crying!  But, those make for the best Santa pictures anyway!  Logan did great, he was super excited to see Santa and told him very quietly that he wanted a Max the Tow Truck.

Here are a couple other photos of these two recently…

Thanksgiving break…(and Loggie takes home turtles)

Logan was so excited last Monday when I picked him up from school because he got to take home the class turtles.  They aren't real, they are stuffed turtles, in case you were wondering.  Their names are Shelby and Shelton.  Logan got to have them all week.  He took them to Thanksgiving dinners, he took them to the movie theater when Dennis took all the boys on Friday, and he slept with them each night.  He had so much fun filling out their journal with all the adventures they did over the week.

At the movies…not a great pic!

Thanksgiving break was really nice.  Besides taking the kids to the movie, we decorated for Christmas. I convinced Dennis that since we were staying put for the holidays and even hosting my family for Christmas dinner that it was time to get a real tree and not pull out our pathetic skinny artificial one.  He reluctantly agreed and we had fun picking one out on Saturday and decorating on Sunday.  I always love pulling out all the ornaments that have so many memories attached to them.  It is always a fun day for the kids too!  So far Leah has stayed away from all the ornaments, hopefully it continues!  She loves when it is lit up though!