Christmas time!

Well, the holidays keep going and going for us as usual!! It is kind of nice to have it spread out as fast as they come and go. We were fortunate enough to stay home around "Christmas" time. My Dad and holly came down and stayed with us from Tuesday till Friday and it was really great to have them around. What great quality grandparent time for the kids!! Always seems that the one Grandparents you think won't spoil your kids are the ones that do the most, ha! Not a bad thing by any means! Anyway, we enjoyed an evening with Joe and Heather stopping in on Tues. Nicole and the kids joined us also. Wed. day and night my Dad and Holly had the kids all day and evening while I was at the mall and Aaron there at night when I went to the salon for work. Dad made some wonderful meals including a roast that night and a ham on Christmas eve that was awesome! The kids got some really cool toys including flying monkeys, small rocket launchers, a billabo and pop gun. Grace got some new boots and a barbie! It was great to have my parents here to experience Santa with the kids. This may be the last year I can convince Grace to "believe" in Santa.
We enjoyed a visit from Kay and Mike on Sunday of that week. It was a great time spent with a quick shopping trip for Kay and Sara, a usual outing for us!! We munched on snacks all day and taught Grace how to play monopoly. The kids enjoyed their wonderful gifts. Grace got a new Liv barbie doll along with doll clothes, and a cool outfit from Justice for herself. Owen, got a Handy Manny motorcycle take apart toy and motorcycle sweat shirt. We opened gifts from Adam and Amy and Owen was SO into his Handy Manny boat building kit. Grace will be able to treat herself to a trip to Claire's and Cold Stone!!!
Bill visited over this weekend and stayed the night with us. Unfortunately it was too cold to go sledding like we had wanted. So, we hung out and played Life and opened our gifts. Grace got some roller blades and coloring sets. Owen got some new sets to go with his Geo Trax train and a ride on motorcycle toy!!
We sure had a wonderful holiday hosting our parents. Looking forward to traveling to my Mom and Tom's next weekend to be guests there for Christmas and my birthday!

Christmas 2009, so far...

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From 2009-11-15

Sesame Street Live

On Nov. 15th Aaron and I took Owen to see Sesame Street 1-2-3 imagine that was playing in Madison. I made the mistake one day when we were out running errands to tell Owen that Dad got the tickets and we were going to see the Sesame characters. Every store we went in he thought they were going to be there. So, the day Owen and I were heading up to Madison to go get Dad and see the show I told him, "Today were are going". The whole car ride all I heard was, "Elmo, Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Count. I so excited!!" It was SO cute, wish I would have had a tape recorder.
Once the show started I don't think he knew what to think but as soon as he saw Big Bird he got it and started waving and saying "Hi, Big Bird". He couldn't take his eyes of the stage!! During the second half of the show he was dancing in the aisle!! Aaron and I had a good time watching parents interact with their children and laughing at the $10 balloons that many of them got suckered into buying only for the kids to let go and float to the top of the collusiem, seeing the look on the kids faces was priceless!! We got a lot of comments and looks of envy from parents around us after we decided to indulge and grab some beers. Overall it was a real blast seeing Owen SO excited and they put on a great show!!