Thursday, December 25, 2014

Merry Christmas!!

Its Christmas so naturally this will be a picture heavy post!

Sam was super excited and I don't think Hannah knew what was going on-  ha!

Christmas Eve I let the kids exchange gifts with each other.

Sam had Mark draw Aerial and then Sam colored it in for her - he put it inside the Frozen chest Hannah has below


Hannah got Sam a Marble Race game



Annual Christmas pj pciture =)


Sam set out a nutcracker and peanuts for Santa along with cookies and water.

In the cooler he left carrots and celery for the reindeer.


The food for the reindeer is in the cooler - carrots and celery


And check this out!!!!  One of the eleves used our camera and got a picture of 
Santa leaving the gifts -how cool!!!!


Christmas Morning the kids woke bright and early and we headed downstairs to check out what 
Santa brought!


Breakfast was snowmen donuts


Hannah loved her Elsa doll


Sam had been asking for the Lego Star Wars AT-AT forever!!
He opened all his gifts so nicely this year and when he got a small lego set he said "well at least I got some legos right mommy?"

Hidden in the back was the AT-AT.

He was so surprised and excited!!!!


"I knew it - I knew Santa would bring it"



Then we headed to MD to see my mom and siblings


These 2 are getting so big!!  Our annual "twin" picture


All the cousins - its ALWAYS my kid that wont cooperate -ha!


Hannah loves her cousin Hailey!


The next day we had a campfire



As you can see below only 1 kid smiles at a time!



Hannah chiilin by the fire


The next day was gorgeous so we headed to the park!








Later that day Michelle brought over a few of her kids and we had another fire


See how much Hannah loves her 



This was from Christmas day -playing with fake snow


So that was our Christmas!

Hope yours was fabulous too!

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Alpaca Farm


We went to Harley Hills Farm to check out the alpacas - I fed them with my hand 
but the kids were too scared


They were so cute!!!


The white alpaca you see there just stared at Hannah for the longest time
and she stared back - too funny!


We made a wreath too!


Saturday, December 13, 2014

Volcanos

Sam loves anything meteorological  - tornado, hurricane, volcano, typhoon, etc

I realized that I had too many xmas gifts for Sam so I pulled this one out as a fun activity to do.

We built the volcano and painted it and then watched it explode!



Hannah was being a little too quiet in the kitchen and when I went to check on her
she had green hands - grrrr

I had to try to paint over it with brown paint before Sam saw it!



The explosion was cool but Sam wanted a bigger one



After it exploded he decided to add oil which turned out to be 
really cool!


We used toothpicks to separate and merge the bubbles




Saturday, December 6, 2014

Ornament Exchange


yay -its time for my favorite holiday party!
I headed to MD for a fun night out with my favorite girls!







celebrating the fall birthdays!





Mark stayed home with the kids and they went to see Santa and made gingerbread houses!




unfortunately I didnt take pics before Mark started to eat them!