Weekend Wrap-Up

Happy Sunday! It has been quite the weekend for us. Yesterday morning the girls, Boom and I took a “Cute Reindeer” clay class. It was so fun!

As you can see from the photo of the project in the lower left above...WE NAILED IT! 

Then later in the afternoon we went to a Lorie Line Christmas Concert!



During the second half of the show they asked all the kids to go and follow an elf for something special. Turns out, there is a tradition at these Christmas concerts of having the kids in the audience get up onstage, wear costumes and participate in the “12 Days of Christmas” with Lorie Line and the band.  It. Was. Amazing. 

Maya was a Turtle Dove and Callie was a French Hen (the top left picture has arrows pointing to them if you can't tell due to the amazing costumes). Chris and I couldn’t stop giggling from the audience. Click here for some video of the 12 Days of Christmas in action!

Yes, that was Callie saying “oui oui!”

Later we had some more Christmas fun at home, playing with Christmas decorations and listening to Christmas music.



This morning we went to church and then to get our Christmas tree. 

I also finally did our seasonal pots outside.



And then...Maya, who had just had some sniffles and a runny nose, was all of a sudden hit with a 101.5 fever.  So Callie went to hang out with G-ma and Pa and we snuggled on the couch watching “Home Alone.”

Chris and I were supposed to go visit Dan, Hanna and Baby Mitchell, but had to cancel due to the household sickness and germs that we don’t want to spread. I was very bummed, but we want to keep the germs away so he can stay healthy and strong! 

After G-Ma and Pa brought Cal back, Maya rallied a bit and we decorated the tree. 

Cookoo and Looney had some fun this weekend too!

Speaking of our elves...we have CooKoo and Looney CAUGHT ON VIDEO  “flying” out of our house on Friday night. Callie gave us strict instructions to set up the iPad video camera before we went to bed so we could catch them going to the North Pole (or not...she is highly suspicious and I am having a hard time giving up the magic). Hence, Chris and I spent way too much time and so many takes to get this 45 seconds of video (the action starts at about the 20 second mark)...Thank goodness for dental floss (tied to the door) and a semi-patient husband. We had to delete our outtakes so they would not be discovered on the iPad, and that was a good thing because it was the first thing Callie checked on Saturday morning.  She had questions (i.e. how come it is only 45 seconds long?  Why does it stop when they are gone?), but was VERY excited to show it to both of us, and then again to Boom an G-ma later this weekend, so I don't think we are suspects.

I know that she is almost 10 and that I should probably just give it up and fess up.  But this time of year is SO magical and it still seems like she really WANTS to believe in all the magic, so we are just doing what we can to keep the wonder and joy alive.

Have a great week!