Advent Day 1 and 2

I'm gonna try my best to keep up with this every day or two!  (: 

Here is the advent calendar that we are doing this year!  We punched out envelopes at the IMC and I traced the numbers 1-25 and Cameron traced them.  I'm not sure where I found these but we printed and laminated these great cards that have a project that we can do each day. 

 Day 2

I'll post the finished reindeer product tomorrow.

Here is our Santa game!  We used chocolate chips. 

We wrapped 25 Christmas books and each day Cam picks a book out to unwrap!

It's almost Christmas??!!??

What! I just can't believe it! It's almost Christmas! I still feel like I have so much to do but I really don't need to get it done by Christmas. We've been busy makin' crafts and doing projects. And basketball games, school, volleyball games and just fun Christmas stuff. I haven't had to time to post much so hopefully soon I can get caught up!

We went to the Milwaukee Zoo Lunch with Santa on Sunday. It was soooo cold but we made it to the Peck Center and had a blast! (Even the big kids did but Anthony won't admit it(:) The kids got to go up and sing and Cam loved it!!

Cam even took a run to Santa. This was a surprise because at the mall Cameron wanted NOTHING to do with Santa but he liked him here.

I love this picture of the kids! Well I gotta get back to more sewing (I'm trying to make Bella, my niece and Mallory, my cousin a tutu for Christmas). I don't think we'll ever get the kids all looking at the same time.

Christmas ornaments

For preschool we give the kids a present each year. It isn't anything fancy or expensive but its just a little something to tell them that we are thinking about them. This year we made them ornaments with their picture in them. Here's my sample of Cameron in Disney World (of course). We took pictures of the kids during work time. They turned out adorable.

We are also giving the kids "Magic Reindeer Food". I can't wait to do this with Cameron on Christmas Eve. I think he'll get a kick out of it. I'm hoping we will be able to put up our tree tonight. I just want to get the lights on and then over the next couple of days be able to put up the ornaments. It's so hard to get everyone in one place EVER so hopefully at some point everyone will be able to put some ornaments up together.

Happy Holidays

We've been working on putting up our Christmas decorations! I think we are almost all done except for the tree. I HATE putting up the lights on our tree. Every year, I end up cursing Chris out and it's not very Christmasy at all!!! Once they are put up, it's great putting the ornaments on but before then is not pretty. Here's what we've done with the fireplace area.

Winter Storm

Wow! I can't believe it's been that long since I last posted! I'm really going to try to be better about it. Well today was a snow day for us! That's something that doesn't happen very often when we actually get to stay home the WHOLE day without going anywhere. Cameron is in the bath tub so I actually write a few sentences before he wants my attention again. He's really been a mama's boy lately! He won't let me out of his sight for two minutes. If Chris tries to play with him, he starts freaking out and cries for me. It frustrates Chris because he doesn't understand why he won't be by him and it's gotten hard to get anything done because he won't let me out of his sight. I tell Chris that it's a faze and he'll grow out of it (let's hope because I don't want a 18 year old man attached to my hip). He does love to be with Kaitlyn and will give me a break if she's around but she's been busy cleaning her room (what a disaster)! Anthony's got a really good friend that comes over a lot (his name is Mac) and Cameron loves him alot! He thinks he's another sibling. It's really cute; he'll ask for him at night or in the morning when he's not here and doesn't understand why he isn't here! Christmas was fun but it sure went fast! Anthony told us that it was the best Christmas ever! (he says that every year). It was a great Christmas (except we missed the Klein Klan). Well Cameron is out of the tub and keeps asking, "Nursy, Nursy!" his favorite thing to do! I don't think I'll ever have this boy weaned. He loves it way too much!! Oh well, some day I'll be wishing for these day!