While I was making a couple of phone calls to wish my grandma and my aunt Happy Birthday, Blake decided that making pictures on paper was too tame and drew himself a little beard.
Based on the weather the last two days (real winter now..snowing, blowing, ice, windchill...ughh), we'll be hibernating for the rest of the winter, giving Blake lots of opportunities to get into more trouble. (Well, he didn't really get into trouble for this one. I took a picture, didn't I?)
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Sunday, December 06, 2009
The Office Party
We had a great brunch today at a local hotel/restaurant for George's office party. All 28 of us. Hard to believe that the accounting firm started out over 10 years ago with George working out of the house. Now, we need to rent a room to fit everyone and their families. Pretty cool actually.
After a particularly yummy brunch, including desserts that actually looked too good to eat (but we chanced it anyway), all the kids/families got to open presents and generally make lots of noise and have fun.
After a particularly yummy brunch, including desserts that actually looked too good to eat (but we chanced it anyway), all the kids/families got to open presents and generally make lots of noise and have fun.
My bad
I just realized that most of the videos I've posted weren't "open to all" on flickr, which means you had to be my special flickr friend to see them. Sorry about that!
I've gone in and fixed all of them now, so you should be able to see:
Faith riding over a jump
Blake roaring
I'll do better next time....maybe.
I've gone in and fixed all of them now, so you should be able to see:
Faith riding over a jump
Blake roaring
I'll do better next time....maybe.
Saturday, December 05, 2009
Christmas cookies!
Our project for the day was to make Christmas cookies. I looked in the "kid-friendly" cookie section of my cookie recipe book...yes, I have an entire recipe related to cookies (thanks to my mom-in-law). The result is a very simple "surprise snowball" cookie. You roll the dough into little balls, stuff a chocolate (in our case, smarties) in the middle, and bake for 15 minutes (or with my lovely convection oven, 13). Then, you let Faith have a big bag of powdered sugar in which she drops each cookies and "shake, shake, shakes" to the Party music station to coat the cookies in sugary goodness. (Blake skipped this portion...I'm not completely insane.)
Faith really got into the whole process, and finished off the 4 dozen or so cookies with a lot of boogying, and more than a little mess.
The cookies were for a project of a friend of a friend, who is attempting to get about 60 dozen cookies to make cookie plates for Christmas food hampers. So, the kids got to spend the morning having fun, getting messy, and doing something good for other people. Check, check, check. A stellar day in my books.
Faith really got into the whole process, and finished off the 4 dozen or so cookies with a lot of boogying, and more than a little mess.
The cookies were for a project of a friend of a friend, who is attempting to get about 60 dozen cookies to make cookie plates for Christmas food hampers. So, the kids got to spend the morning having fun, getting messy, and doing something good for other people. Check, check, check. A stellar day in my books.
Meeting "Baby Georgian"
The kids and I got to meet my brother and sister-in-law's newest addition yesterday. (We quarantined ourselves for a week or so due to Blake's cough, fever, cold last weekend.)
The kids were suitably impressed with the little bundle of baby. Both of them got to hold her, but while Blake lost interest quickly, Faith would have held onto Jordyn the whole time we were there. Well...she had to fight me for a turn too.
So, while Blake and Logan played endless games of Ring around the Rosie, Faith posed with Jordyn for a series of baby shots. Faith is practicing for her future years as a babysitter, which she'll be very good at.
Our visit definitely made an impression on the kids. When George got home last night (he was in Toronto for a day and a half), Blake excitedly told him about holding on to "Baby Georgian". Faith and I thought this was quite funny, but Blake insisted this was her name. However, it's hard to tell if he's teasing us now. He then insisted that he couldn't go to bed because, "Daddy wants to hold me now." (Yes, he got to stay up later. Cuteness counts for something.)
The kids were suitably impressed with the little bundle of baby. Both of them got to hold her, but while Blake lost interest quickly, Faith would have held onto Jordyn the whole time we were there. Well...she had to fight me for a turn too.
So, while Blake and Logan played endless games of Ring around the Rosie, Faith posed with Jordyn for a series of baby shots. Faith is practicing for her future years as a babysitter, which she'll be very good at.
Our visit definitely made an impression on the kids. When George got home last night (he was in Toronto for a day and a half), Blake excitedly told him about holding on to "Baby Georgian". Faith and I thought this was quite funny, but Blake insisted this was her name. However, it's hard to tell if he's teasing us now. He then insisted that he couldn't go to bed because, "Daddy wants to hold me now." (Yes, he got to stay up later. Cuteness counts for something.)
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
A little bit of jumping
My mom requested a short video of Faith jumping at her lesson. So here's my blurry, through dirty glass, cameraphone video with commentary by Blake. After the lesson, Faith asked me, "Do you think if I fell off and broke my arm that it would stop me from riding horses?" I wasn't sure. "Well, the answer is Nooooo." I just hope I don't have to find out!
December 1, 2009
Just to prove that our first "sticking around" snow fell on December 1. We're expecting storms tomorrow and Friday too. Welcome to winter.
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