Snow Storms and Busy times

This last week was busy. I hadn't done any Christmas shopping and I wasn't stressed about it until Monday night and I woke up in the night and could not go back to sleep thinking about everything I needed to do. I had so much to do. I was making lists on my phone in the middle of the night so I would stop thinking about it. I then went from having nothing done to almost all of it done in couple of days. Phew. The Holidays are so fun but they are also stressful, especially for the mom.

Wednesday was Corbin and Gabby's winter concert. It was great. The K-2nd graders were the cutest. They had props and sang traditional Christmas songs and plus little kids are just cute. Gabby's class did a reindeer twist song that was so cute. That girl can twist. I cannot figure out how to post videos on the blog and it makes me crazy. Corbin sang with the 3-5 graders and I could not even see him. It was very crowded and he was on the side. He did come to the front for one song and played the drum or something. He didn't sing that I could see but he did keep beat with the stick. Singing is not Corbin's cup of tea. The 3-5 graders sang some weird hippy dippy songs no one's heard of that weren't my favorite, but I was impressed by how well they did especially incorporating lots of instruments and props throughout.  

Gabby's class is talking about heritage and traditions from other countries so I volunteered to talk about Canada which is where my maternal grandmother is from. I then realized how much time I needed to take (30-45 minutes) and was a bit stressed out about it. As soon as I came up with an idea on how to fill the time it was fine but thinking of what to do and say was stressful. I had some help from facebook friends help and it went well. I just shared some fun facts about Canada and some Canadian snacks and had them do an art project. 

We've been having weekly cheesy Christmas movie nights with my friends from the ward. It's been fun. Those cheesy movies are definitely best watched in a group to get the full effect. 

We had a Christmas party with a bunch of our post mo friends on Friday night. We did a sock exchange. I was searching amazon forever trying to find funny socks and the ones I liked wouldn't arrive in time. I also didn't want to spend $20 on stupid socks so I got the idea to buy some socks at the dollar store and make my own. The party was fun. It supposed to be a game night but the group was almost too big for games. There were 8 couples there. We mostly just chatted and ate some yummy food, I need some Christmas crack and cheese ball in my life right now. We later did the sock exchange after I pulled a Monica from Friends and totally took over. That sock exchange was not happening! Then we played one game for a minute before Scott and I had to get back to our babysitter. She was one of the girls from my primary class who just turned 12. We were her first gig. She did great! I like young babysitters because they are excited to do it and don't mind that we are cheap. Ha. 

It keeps snowing and melting and snowing again. It has been a really pretty December for Boise. It has made it feel more like Christmas. Love it!

Gabby's hair is getting long and she actually lets me fix it how I want sometimes.

My friend Rachel made this scarf for me for Christmas. It matches my coat perfectly. I wore my fake lashes that day. It took me FOREVER to get them on. I tried to wear them again yesterday and finally got them on only to have them melted when I opened the oven door minutes later. Forget about it!

Piper's craft ornament and Corbin photo bomb. Corbin is in the family I swear. He needs more air time.

My poster for my presentation

Ryan hanging out at the bottom of the book shelf.

Silly pipes.

Silly Ryan

Gabby is in the Santa dress on the bottom left.

Art project I had the class do.

I made these for the ladies I visit teach. I still do that for now. It's kind of awkward. We will see how long it lasts. I'm going to be curious what next year's theme will be...

Gabby's class had a Grinch day. This is her sporting her "who" hair.

Piper helped me make some treats.

Ryan building his "forks" aka forts."I'm building a fork."

My hand crafted socks for the sock exchange. I will say that my cow socks did get stolen once because someone is going to wear those on the dress like a cow day at Chick-fil-A. Perfect!

Gabby doing her thing.