We have been busy preparing for Christmas, but mostly MOVING. We have spent most of our time as of late unpacking and organizing, but we were able to set up our tree and get into the Christmas spirit. We are making Gingerbread houses for FHE tomorrow, and boy, are the girls excited.
Here is a little pinterest inspired creation I made to put on the mantle!
The girls LOVE the eat up bar, and the "Spinny chairs" we got for them. It is so handy to have them eat there for breakfast and lunch, we all love it.
The house is starting to come together. This shot was taken walking up the stairwell with my phone, so it is not the greatest, but you get the idea!
We are loving our huge comfy sectional in the basement!
I am loving this new laundry pair that came with the house! I have always had really bad laundry sets, so this is so wonderful to use!
Poor Chloe came down with a case of the mumps (!!!) They figure it was just a reaction to the MMR vaccine she got 2 months ago! She didn't get sick, or feverish or anything, she just got this huge lump on her gland that made it hard for her to open her mouth. It all went away after a few days, and that was that! We are glad it wasn't anything worse.
STUDENT OF THE MONTH
Lily was chosen as Student of the Month for the month of October! I am SO proud of her. She is such an excellent student, in every way!
WINTER IN EDMONTON...
...has begun! Winter came so early this year. It started snowing one day the first week in November, and it didn't stop for 2 day! This was the result!
The girls have loved being close to cousins:
Olivia has been taught how to print her name, by Isabelle! She just barely turned 3 in August, and this photo was taken in October. I am so very impressed and proud of her. I am very proud of Izzy as well for teaching her! She is such an excellent big sister!
HALLOWEEN 2012
Halloween took place on a freezing night this year! I think it was -21 with the wind chill, which is very cold if you are not used to it. The kids lasted only 2 blocks, but we still able to get quite a bit of candy!
We went out with the Herget kids:
Kessler was nice and warm in his Mickey Mouse suit!
This was earlier in the day for the school's parade. Even Olivia got to join in. Minnie Mouse and a Girl Pirate!:
We found Izzy the Scientist in the hall:
Lily the Fairy. She wanted to be a creepy fairy, but we forgot to put on creepy makeup. Her indoor shoes match perfectly!:
The parade was one where they called all the witches to walk around at the same time, then the cats, etc. This was when they asked the pirates:
Here they had asked the Scientists. There were only two!
Lily didn't want to parade around when they called all the Fairies and Butterflies for some reason.
All the kids loot after trick or treating.
