Sandon's 5th Birthday Party

We had Sandon's 5th Birthday Party at Chuck E Cheese this year. Since his Birthday is on Christmas Day we always try to do his party some time at the beginning of December. This year he wanted to go to Chuck E Cheese so we invited 4 of his friends and their families and one of the kids favorite sitters and had dinner and partied all evening. Sandon is really into WALL-E right now so he picked a WALL-E Birthday cake and funny enough most of his gifts had to do with WALL-E. The kids had a blast. Sandon asked me this morning when I picked him up from preschool if we could go to Chuck E Cheese for dinner tonight. I had to explain to him that we only go there every once in awhile.

Ethan wasn't too fond of Chuck E Cheese the mouse

Say "Cheese" Colin

Sandon, Flo, and Aimee playing games

Jenika our sitter playing jump rope

look at all my tickets!

Hi Sandon and colin

Gingerbread House

We decided to make it a tradition to make a family gingerbread house each Christmas. This was the first time that Doug or I had made one too. It was really easy and quite fun. The kids loved decorating it and eating a few pieces of the candy along the way not to mention a few mouthfuls of frosting.

The finished product!!!

Beehive Cheese Factory

Sandon's preschool class went on a field trip today to the Beehive Cheese Factory by our house. They got to see how the cheese is made, and taste test it. They liked the famous squeaky cheese. I had to work this morning so Doug got the opportunity to take the kids....It's good for him!

Can you find Sandon??

A day at the Duck Pond

The weather the last couple of days has been so beautiful, so we decided to go to the duck pond and park by our house and take pictures of the kids. Sandon did great but Raleigh is at that age where she won't look at the camera. I bribed and bribed with "candy when we get home".

Trans Siberian Orchestra Concert

We had the opportunity last Thursday to go see the Trans Siberian Orchestra in concert with some friends of ours. If you ever get the chance to see them we highly recommend it. The music is awesome, and these are some of the most talented musicians you will ever hear. They start off with a Christmas musical and then they play for fun for an hour or so. They have so many pyrotechnics, laser lights, snow even. It was awesome. Sorry the video isn't all that great of quality but you get the hang of it!

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween everyone! The kids had a great time trick or treating this year before it started raining. We cut it short and visited some friends houses to let the kids say hi and show off their costumes. Until next year!!

Voting

I got up early this morning so I could get the kids and I ready on time to drop Sandon off at school and hurry to go stand in line to vote and be finished before I had to pick Sandon up from preschool. To my surprise.....I walked in gave them my name and went straight to the electronic booth to cast my vote. I guess I am one of the lucky few!!! I love when things go just right cause it is far and in between when it does. I hope everyone else had the same luck as I did. The only down side to it all was that we woke up to snow, rain, and slush, so everything was wet and cold. Raleigh and I had to shed our clothes when we got home cause they were soaked!! I hate being wet!