Christmas!

Here is a little snapshot summary of our Christmas:
Just after leaving out their stockings, cookies & milk and letters to Santa.The haul after Santa arrived.Buzzing with excitement that Santa came (the proof being the cookies and milk were gone).Checking out the new fishing rod from Santa, Santa is a very considerate fellow; he also brought one for daddy.Can you believe he is only 7 months old!!?? He looks more like a 1 year old to me in the picture.Posing with his new adventure set from Grandma.Tasting his new blocks from Auntie Amanda (and crew).While he was at it, he thought it would also be a good idea to taste the wrapping paper.Breakfast of champions (at least on Christmas morning anyway). This is courtesy of daddy, I would have been fine with bacon and eggs.After all that sugar, he was ready to do some cleaning for mommy, "I'm going to make the house all shiny and clean for you!" And he sang "srub-a-dub" the whole time he was cleaning. And why not some candy to top off the breakfast chocolate? Hard at work on his new computer from Auntie Chris, Uncle Rod, Shannon, Ryan and Sean.

7 months & Christmas Concert

Too funny, they both have a funny jaw thing going on in these pics but on opposite sides of their faces.Connor practiced and practiced his "Hello Winter" song until I also knew all the words and actions. However, he did not sing one word during the entire concert. He kept rolling up his shirts and showing his tummy to all of the parents. But on the positive side, I have never seen him be so still or quiet for such a long period of time. He had a lot of fun though and when the concert was over he sang the song to his teacher.

A Christmas Present For You

Well, since things are a little tight on our end with me being on maternity leave and not having the extra cash for presents we thought we would send along the below little something:
Not enough?! Well, how about two little somethings:
Don't worry though, the boys have been more than spoiled by all of the family and it is going to be a great Christmas. I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and we will be thinking of you all. Hopefully one year soon we can all be together for Christmas.

Christmas is coming!!

This is a just because picture well because it is getting harder and harder to capture Connor with one of his natural smiles. He loves to ham it up for the camera. But handsome and sweet regardless. See what I'm talking about? But like I said, still pretty damn handsome. Connor has a Santa outfit for his build a bear and guess who fits into the hat with attached beard!!??
A regular little Santa with the bowl full of jelly and everything. Excuse the shot of Connor in his undies.
Having fun in the snow rolling giant snowballs. Connor and I made a snow fort and daddy made his own and we had a snow war. Connor and I aren't great shots so used the lids from the garbage cans as shields so we could invade daddy's wall unharmed.
Gee, I wonder where Connor learned to be such a ham? Really, I wouldn't be calmly taking a picture of this if Jeremy was really dropping Darien off the couch.

We went to our 2nd annual Christmas play today, Aladdin. It is a pantomine so audience participation is required. When they first came on stage and we were practicing our boos/hisses and cheers Darien started crying. He was scared, I got him calmed down and the bad guy came on stage - everyone booed - Darien cried. I got him calmed down again, the good fairy came on stage - everyone yelled YEAH - Darien cried - we left. That is Darien and I left, Connor and Jeremy stayed for the show (with intermission it was 3 hours long). I brought snacks back for the boys during the break and spent the rest of the time in the local Maple Ridge "mall" and the library (best place to nurse on a Saturday afternoon it was empty).

Christmas fun

Here is a recent pic of Brent & the Boys. Brent was dressed up as Santa for a benefit concert held a week or so ago by our local radio station. I'll post one of the clips of him singing too...it's pretty cute.

Christmas Party

Tonight we went to a Christmas party at our Yacht Club. It was a pot luck event, so the food was fabulous. The kids had a great time, they ate a lot of food, danced and sang Christmas songs. As well the kids each got a small gift from Santa and Mrs. Claus. We weren't to sure how Hannah would react, but she didn't mind at all. She even gave a big smile for a picture while sitting on Santa's knee.