Christmas Parade

Spontaneously my mom & I took the kids to a Christmas Parade in downtown Olympia. It was a lot of fun. I packed with me some rice krispie treats and hot cocoa with marshmallows and we enjoyed ourselves watching the parade. I hope next year is a nice dry day like it was this time; it'd be fun to go again.

Thanksgiving

We had a great thanksgiving! It was fun in the week prior to talk with the kids about being thankful and trying to teach them about thanksgiving. On thanksgiving day we took the kids to see a movie; which was a lot of fun - minus the wiggly 18 month old :) Then we went over to my parents for the afternoon/evening. Always so good to be all together. There are times especially during holidays, and birthdays but even on an everyday day that I wish we had more time with Jair's family too. Often, here friends and sometimes family will say how lucky we are we don't have to share a holiday and go from one place to the next since Jair's family isn't here. We often tell them, that we'd much rather share holidays than seem them occasionally. We tried to take family pictures with our camera on a timer - that was fun :) Challenging and a test of our patience and the kids' but here are a few of those pictures.

The First Snow

It's snowing here - a real winter wonderland. We ventured out for a short time this morning. Matthan enjoyed it the most. Hadrian was his moody self upset that he had to wear multiple socks to go out side; he finally cheered up a bit while we were out there, and then he got hit by a snow ball so that sent him back into his mood. Hadassa wasn't too sure about the whole experience; she pretty much just stood in one spot the whole time :)

Time For A Party

The kids and I are all sick with an awful cold. We are home today enjoying our time in our jammies and watching movies. Just about lunch time; Matthan says "we should have a party" and of course Hadrian jumped right on that idea! I said "okay lets have a party with our toast, hot cocoa and grapes. You can wear your hats" (one Hadrian made at school; and I threw one together for Matthan). They were excited! Of course you can't have a party with out candles, so they each got one candle in a piece of toast and they sang happy birthday to themselves. These are the moments that are so sweet and treasurable!