He's watching....

We adopted this cute little elf from our adventure at Gardner Village. He is Santa's little helper and reports to Santa each night on what he sees the kids doing each day. He will report the good and the bad. He also came with the cute storybook. He moves into a different location each night after he reports to the big guy at the North pole.



The holiday season has definitely begun. My sister-in-law Gail and I embarked on the Black Friday deals again this year. This is always a tradition for me and I will take who ever is willing and in town to come with me. Gail and I always have good luck together and we have fun breaking our normal scheduled life and living carefree for a few hours with no kids and husbands. This year did not disappoint either. We tried a first this year, we started on Thanksgiving night 9:30p and shopped until 8:00am on Friday. Well, I must clarify we stood in lines for over half the time, but it was all worth it. We had another crazy experience and will do again next year. So, I am ready to enjoy this Holiday season and the exciting things that come with it.

Gardner Village

We didn't make it out to this place for the Halloween witches so we had some free time last Saturday and made it to see the elfs. We happened to pick one of the worst weather days so far. We stayed through the wind, rain and snow. We completed the fun elf hunt, ate dinner at Archibald's and it definitely felt like we were in a winter wonderland.

Swim to stay busy...

For the first two weeks of our track break we kept busy with swimming lessons.

The kids looked forward to it everyday.
They both made some outstanding improvements in their skills.

Officially over..

Wow! We had a fun month with Halloween activities. I am now looking forward to the next holidays. We spent the last day before halloween at the kids school carnival. This carnival was so fun, every classroom had a game to play and the kids were excited to see all their classmates. Carter's teacher had the best costume as a two-headed dragon. She and another teacher walked around the school and it was so tall that you couldn't miss her. We then spent halloween night with our neighborhood getting candy loot from a trunk or treat. Then we ended the night hitting houses that were decorated very scary. Poor Ashlynn got scared by the "Batman Joker" sneaking up on her and her candy went flying out of her bucket in the dark, but then we were able to get most of it back. It just can't be Halloween without alittle scare!
Now, the kids are off track from school and out for a month until after Thanksgiving. What will we do...I am sure we will fill the time quickly.

We are ready...

For Halloween that is...We have had our parties, got our costumes and finished our pumpkins. We are ready for the big day of fright and fun!

Lets Party!!

We love parties...we had fun with 2 parties on Saturday. The kids had fun with all the fun activities. What a fun time of year!

Ashlynn's dance school party.

Frightmares

We just can't say its Halloween until we experience the excitement at Lagoon for Frightmares. The kids were a little nervous about the scary characters walking around the park, but we had fun with the group of friends we were with.