It's Christmastime at our House

This week there has been lots of snow on the ground and on the roads. It's been pretty treacherous driving all week. I couldn't take all the beautiful white snow without my Christmas decorations any longer. I had to bust out the Christmas stuff on Wednesday. We enjoyed our Christmas decorations with beautiful snow for a few days but the weather finally warmed up and almost all of the snow is melted now. The snow was so pretty for about a week.

On Tuesday I went to the cannery for a couple of hours. Scott was supposed to be home but had a work conflict come up. Luckily I was able to farm out my kids because finding a sub for the cannery is not easy.

On Thursday night I was able to go with some girlfriends to Mocking Jay. We decided to go last minute and we were pleased to find that the movie theater was not the least bit crowded. It was fun. There were about 25 minutes of previews but watching them with my friends was almost better than the movie...almost.

We got our garage door fixed last week. It has been so annoying to not have it working. Within the same week our car broke down, our dryer died, and our garage door broke down. Now everything is up and running again. Wow, I sure do take my modern day conveniences for granted!

Corbin got invited to a birthday party from a classmate that I didn't know. I decided I would go with him because he wanted to go. It was kind of a random party. Lots of kids from the 1st grade were there but then there were also lots of family members and family friends. The dynamics were really weird and they told parents to come pick up their kids in 4 hours. 4 hours! Ya right. They didn't have any activities planned and the kids just went back and forth from playing downstairs with nothing and coming back upstairs. Corbin ended up being the only boy from the class who showed up so he spent most of the time hiding under a table. Anyway it was a bust to say the least. The good news for me was the birthday girl's Mexican grandma made the most amazing homemade salsa and chicken tamales, Seriously amazing! Corbin tried to hold out until they cut the cake but I told him there was no way to know when that was going to happen so after an hour and a half we bailed! If you are going to have a party where you invite most of your classmates in my opinion it needs to be a friends only affair and there needs to be structured activities and it should be no longer than 2 hours. You don't combine family and friends and have a bunch of kids from school come over to hang out! It was weird but the food was amazing! Haha.

Quotes:
Corbin: "Mom, I've got a question. Are we getting out the Christmas movies? Cause if not I'm going to be a drama queen."

Gabby: "Mom, he doesn't come when we're not asleep." Me:"Who Santa?" G;"Uh Huh."
"I wish a had a tiara for this dress, a tiara is another word for crown."

Piper: "Mom can you wipe my bum?" Me:"Did you poop?" P:"Don't say poop, that makes me so mad!"
Piper speaks really well and says most words correctly but she does say things like take a bap, (bath) or that's so hunny, (funny). It's just funny to hear kids say some words.

Ryan is walking all over the house these days.

We had to build a Ryan barricade so he wouldn't ruin Gabby's block creations.

Gabby's cute snowman.

Corbin's cabin and trees.