Lots of Christmas Fun!

It's been a bit crazy here and I am still struggling to catch up on the blog. I thought it would be fun to post pictures of all the Christmas things we have been up too. We have had a LOT of snow this year. It's a bit crazy how much snow we've had. The kids have loved it! They got to miss 2 days of school for snow days. That was a lot of fun. The first day we stayed in the house the next day we got out a few times and played in the snow. I pulled the kids behind the quad, up and down the road. I think I would of gotten stuck if I went off the road! They had fun though. We didn't last very long, because it was really cold out!

Abbi was stuck here. She jumped into the soft snow and her feet were way down there!

This kind of shows you how much snow we had. Look at the fence by DJ, they could walk right over it!

The girls and I went to church without Richard and DJ a couple of weeks ago. Richard was sick and DJ was being a pill, so he stayed home with his dad!! So the girls and I got a picture together by the Christmas tree before we went to church! Can't believe how big my girls are getting. Of course, DJ wanted his picture taken too! That afternoon it was a lazy day and we were all snuggled in DJ's room watching a movie. Fun times.

My cute girls in their Christmas dresses. No they are not matching. Abbi and Brianna's dresses were from Mikah and Shaylee. They all look super cute!

Me and my beautiful girls!

DJ in his Ninja Turtle jammies!

Watching a movie in DJ's room!

DJ found a Santa hat a while ago and loves to wear it all the time. He will be in bed and then be up looking for the Santa hat, because he wants to wear it too bed. He drives me crazy at bed time! He is always coming up with some excuse. Oh funny thing about DJ. I finally made a chart for him so if he goes through the night without getting up in the middle to eat, he gets a sticker. Yup, he's horrible for that. It's usually around 2am that he wakes up hungry. He's been doing really good. DJ has been saying some really funny things lately. He cracks me up. The other day, we went to the mall to see Santa. Oh that's a funny picture too! Anyways, as we are leaving the mall I kept hearing DJ singing. When I finally paid attention to what he was saying it cracked me up. He was singing, "I'm saxy and I know it!" So funny. He sang that all day long! Sheesh!

DJ, ready to go to bed in his Santa hat!

What a cute boy! He has a thing lately where he doesn't want to wear a bed to shirt! Whatever!!

DJ was getting ready to cry. He just got huge tears in his eyes! Santa scared him!! Ha ha! Love this picture!

For a FHE one Monday, I did a short lesson on the true meaning of Christmas. Richard had to work late that night. He has been working late most nights. He's been super busy. After the lesson they all sat up to the table to decorate their gingerbread men. They were so excited. I got everything ready, but they all did their own. I love that my kids are getting old enough to do this fun stuff with me just watching them! I help once in a while, but they all love that they can do it by themselves! They all turned out super cute!

Brianna and Cadence busy working on their gingerbread men!

DJ and Abbi hard at work. DJ had me help a little bit, but basically did all on his own!

Cadence made hers into a girl!

Abbi and her gingerbread man. She went a little crazy with the candy!!

Brianna with hers! She had the box in front of her and copied what they did. But she did the hair herself!

DJ so proud of his cute gingerbread man!

They all did so good!

The girls have been going skating with their school the past two weeks. I am sorry, but my kids are doomed in that department. We are not skaters here! Ha ha! Most of the time I go and help. Cadence has had a tough time. She doesn't feel confident to do it by herself. She finally got the nerve to skate on her own this week. I was so proud of her. She got a hockey stick and for some reason that helped with her balance. It cracked me up how she would shuffle along.  But she was able to go everywhere. Abbi and Brianna would skate everywhere. But they really don't like it. The skates hurt their feet and they never want to stay on the ice the whole time. I don't blame them. I tried going skating with them and my feet couldn't take it either. Ouch! I got some cute pictures of them skating around.

I talked Cadence into holding Brianna's hand so I could take a quick picture!

Cadence and Brianna with Alexa!

Brianna with their toothless grin!

Cadence skating around with the hockey stick!

Abbi having fun skating (for a little bit anyways!)!

DJ has been a little bit obsessed with Ninja Turtles lately. He found the girls baby bucket downstairs. He emptied it and brought it up to me to show me how he can be a turtle. It was hilarious. His dad helped him hold it on his back. Then he was like, see I go into my house, as he crawled underneath it and disappeared. Oh he makes me laugh!! Another time, I was reading with Cadence in my room, when I saw DJ try to sneakily come into the room. He was holding our bench cushion in front of him. When I looked up at him he froze with the cushion in front of him, so all I could see were his fingers. When I kept reading with Cadence he came right by the bed and froze again. I said to Cadence, "Do you know where DJ is I can't find him anywhere." Then he started giggling behind the cushion. He came out and said, "I right here mom, I teased you." He told me he was being a wall! Man, what a kid!

Here he is crawling around like a turtle with a shell on his back!

Now he was fighting like a Ninja Turtle. I missed him hiding in his shell!

Here's my "wall" sneaking into the room!

This is what he was doing as Cadence and I were reading! So funny!

This week, we were busily getting ready for school one day, when Abbi came upstairs. It was a crazy morning and she was trying to tell me something. I finally stopped and listened and Abbi said in a very dramatic way, "Mom, I think a sheep came into my room in the middle of the night and shed himself....he left white fluff everywhere." I looked at her and told her she's funny. Then away she went. Well, maybe I should of really listened to her and questioned her a bit. But I got everyone off to school. I was busy cleaning downstairs and talking on the phone. I walked into Abbi and Brianna's room and stopped mid stride. I was shocked. She wasn't kidding, there was white fluff EVERYWHERE! It was a mess! I guess Abbi and Brianna took all the stuffing out of Brianna's bunny the night before. I guess that was what all the giggling was about. I made her clean it up. What am I going to do with her. She can come up with crazy stories.

This doesn't look as bad as it was. It's a pain to clean up too.

Since I am telling stories about the kids I have to write down something Cadence did. Last night I went to their Christmas Concert. Brianna stayed home with her dad and DJ. She was not feeling good. So I took Cadence and Abbi. They did a really good job. I went to get them from their classroom and we were walking down the hall when Cadence said to me, "Mom my tummy keeps turning on and off. It's silly like that. But it's off now." Ummmm, ok. I asked if her tummy was hurting but she said it's off. She comes up with the funniest sayings. But maybe I should of taken her more serious. Because she went to bed so good and an hour later she threw up everywhere. Then I was up with her till past midnight. The poor girl couldn't stop throwing up and she had diarrhea too. She was miserable. I felt so bad. She finally fell back to sleep. She has been laying around today, but no more throwing up. Thank goodness. So I guess I should listen when she tells me her tummy keeps turning on and off.

My sick Cadence sleeping with her head in the bowl. It was right in the bowl when I came in but she had moved a little by the time I got the camera!

Brianna is such a cutie to watch. She loves to make things and then hide little notes or messages under my pillow and Richard's pillow. We have many cute notes from her. She is also very picky about things. A couple of weeks ago she showed me that her tooth was really loose. I asked if I could wiggle it. There was no way. After I promised her I wouldn't pull (I never do that, I can never get a grip on their tiny teeth even when they want me to try pulling!), and sure enough it was barely hanging in there. I told her that she just needed to pull it out. I said if she didn't do it, then I was going to. She looked at me and walked away. Not even 5 minutes later she came up with the tooth in her hand! Ha ha! She was so proud. She had to write the "toof farey" a note too! What a cutie!

Richard and I went to Great Falls a couple of weeks ago to get all our Christmas shopping done. It worked!! We are finished and with birthdays too! Anyways, he found these batman jammies and he had to buy them! DJ was so jealous. When Richard came running out of the room flying around. DJ thought it was great. He asked, "Dad where's my batman?" We told him there wasn't one his size he was heart broken. The poor kid was sobbing! Then Richard went flying into his room and kept flying in and out and DJ was laughing. Then Richard slipped on a toy and almost hit the floor but caught himself. Oh boy, it was hilarious! DJ and I were laughing so hard! So that cheered him up!!

My good looking batman!! Ha ha! He had a cape attached to the back to that flew behind him when he was running!

We've had so much wind and snow, I've had to go out shovelling a LOT! DJ is already getting sick of it. He can be a good helper too. Well this week we were coming back from clearing sights and just came through Welling. As we were going around the big curve I saw a semi tipped over with a load of hay. It must of just happened too. We stopped to make sure the driver was OK. He had just gotten out. He was waiting with someone and the ambulance was on it's way so we left. But I had to take a quick picture. It was quite the sight. DJ thought it was pretty crazy too.

At least it tipped over into the ditch!

Kind of crazy looking! He must of been going too fast around the curve. The wind was blowing like crazy too!

OK, so this is a really random post! I think I am jumping around everywhere. But it's really helping me get caught up. So the kids wrote their letters for Santa. We finally mailed them this Monday. I kept forgetting to take them in the car. We mailed them on our way into Lethbridge for FHE. We went to Walmart and the kids did their Christmas shopping for each other. We had them draw names again. They always love doing that. It's fun to help them. Then we went out to IHop for supper. It was perfect!!

Here they are mailing their letters!

I mentioned that the girls had their Christmas Concert last night. Brianna was sick, but the other two went. They did a good job. It was just one number. They sang a song as they played different instruments too. I couldn't get a good picture of them doing it, but I took one of the two girls together afterwards. Then today their choir did a few songs for the school assembly. All my girls are in the choir but only Abbi went to school today. Brianna and Cadence were sad that they missed their last day before the holidays. Oh well, they really weren't feeling good.

Abbi and Cadence just getting home after their concert! So pretty!

The choir singing their songs. They were super cute. Abbi is right in the middle on the 2nd row.

DJ had his concert yesterday too. I dropped him off for school and then came back at 10 for his little show. Well, as soon as he came in the room and saw me that was the end of that. He has been so shy lately when I am around. He wanted nothing to do with it. Mom and Megan came to watch too. I finally talked him into participating if I did it with him. So I got to do the fun songs and activities with DJ! He did have fun!! Funny boy!

This was a colour song where he had to wave a flag around if he was wearing a certain color!

Another fun game. I was hanging onto his hand. He wouldn't let me go!

He was OK doing the game with a class mate as long as I was right there!

His big happy smile after he got his present from his teachers!

So that gets us mostly caught up! I've been busy getting our neighbour gifts ready and cleaning the house and taking care of sick kids! We are having a dinner here for my mom and dad's 40th Anniversary. It's just for the adults and should be fun. I hope everything works out! Well that's it for now! Ta ta!