eventful week...

Tonight we opened a few gifts at our house:) You'll see a mouthful of m&ms in BJ's mouth. Ah to be four and seven years old!




BJ's school had a super fun party too, where I just floated around with BJ. I had such fun, as did he. They made gingerbread puppets, iced gingerbread cookies (BJ only licked off the icing), and Santa stopped by. How sweet of him to take time off from his busy holiday operations to come see the kids. The kids all brought one wrapped book from home to share in a gift exchange which was lot of fun. It's so neat to see kids excited about new books.



Friday both boys had a fun xmas party at their schools. CJ's was all science related, which was a fun and different way to organize a party! I was in charge of the "Christmas Catapult" station where the kids predicted then catapulted a Santa, a hersey kiss, a xmas bow, and a xmas ring. They really had a great time and you wouldn't believe the science vocabulary these first graders have.


Thursday night CJ had a Christmas Concert. One of his Christmas surprises for us was that he was chosen to play one of the musical instruments in the program! This was a BIG deal and I have no idea how he managed to keep this a secret. He was really hoping to get to do it. It was such fun. He was so excited about the program, that he woke up early that morning and fixed breakfast for everyone.

BJ's Christmas Party

new personal record

Today I ran 13.1 miles for the first time EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!
And I wasn't absolutely zonked by the time I was finished, although I'm sure I'll sleep great tonight.

Weather Forecast....highs/lows for week....

5-Day Forecast

Monday

11° F | -1° F

Tuesday
4° F | -4° F

Wednesday
13° F | 12° F

Thursdsay
14° F | 6° F

Friday
8° F | -6° F

OH MY GOSH!!!! I just had to post how extreme this cold feels! This arctic blast is unreal. At least the sun is shining. Everything you touch is cold it seems. The high tomorrow is supposed to be 4degrees!

When I left to the gym this morning at 5:50 AM it must have been close to 5 degrees. It has warmed up to 10 degrees I believe now.

After I took CJ to school this morning and came back to take a shower and pick up Rick and BJ, I walked into the house and didn't see BJ anywhere. I asked Rick where he was and he said, "Go look in his bed..." So I did, and there was a little ball curled up under his many, many blankets. When I said, "Hi BJ, are you going to get out of that bed?" He said, "Call me when breakfast is ready." Seems as though he was ready for breakfast #2, as he had rice krispies and a poptart for breakfast already when CJ was eating. That cutie pie.

Beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

It's been a LONG time since I've had time to post! We've been beyond busy. Last weekend we did open our Christmas boxes to decorate a bit. BJ was so happy to see old Santa (in pictures above). He insisted on sleeping with him a few nights. So much fun to see our special ornaments. The boys remember them from last year, esp. the ones they've made.

And you see from the other pictures the beautiful snow that has finally arrived. Actually came all of a sudden it seems to us. We scurried yestersday to get the snow tires put on before the next round of winter comes (Monday?). When the boys went outside to play, it was really somewhat blizzard-like, with the winds blowing the frozen snow, but they stayed outside anyway. BJ is able to put on his own snowsuit, jacket, gloves, and boots this year and that is VERY exciting!!!! Many thanks to Gina and family for sharing all their snowsuits/gloves with us. Now we have some to grow into, and some to replace cold/wet ones.

This morning we have awakened to a little more snow on the ground, probably 6 inches or so, and 10 degee temps outside! YIKES. They say that is supposed to be about the high for today. Definitely no running outside for the next few days:)

Toothless builder

We had two visits from the toothfairy this holiday weekend. One on the eve of Thanksgiving and again Thanksgiving. CJ's smile is absolutely adorable!

CJ is showing you the car he built all by himself Thursday, Friday and Saturday. He approached me Thursday morning about 10AM and said, "Mommy, I just don't know what to do. I feel like I need to build something." Fortunately, his mommy thought ahead for once and happened to have this K'nex set in the closet. It's pretty cool, with a motor in it, which makes it a little different than his other lego creations. There are over 220 pieces in this one.

turkeys in disguise???

BJ's school has notified us that there are some turkeys this time of year in disguise! Who knew? BJ says they wear a disguise b/c if people see them without their disguise, they will want to eat the turkeys. And look who we found hiding at our house...Spider Turkey!