Christmas cards, Coloring and Cold weather

My TinyPrints Christmas Card order arrived today! The box was on the front porch when I got home. Getting presents is fun! Even if it's not really a present and I knew what it was and had to pay for it...it's still fun! I love ordering from this company. I created and ordered the cards online and they arrived in 6 days! Sure it costs more than buying a box of Christmas cards from Walmart, but I love the personalized look to them. I realized today that the card I chose has a background called coastal breeze...I thought they were snowflakes. I think it's actually cotton blowing in the wind. Oh well..nobody will know...lol. I should be sending them out in the next couple weeks.

Amy is coloring with Jake now. She loves using crayons and is even holding it properly with her little hand. Here's some pictures:

They also have a giant pad of paper that I throw down on the living room floor with a couple of mason jars full of crayons and they color for about 30 minutes together. Pretty cute.

It's gotten cold....as far as cold goes on the coast. It was 1 degree on the way home from work today according to my car dash thermometer. It even snowed at the higher levels today making a very pretty view for the drive home. It's supposed to snow a little tomorrow as well, but then be sunny on Sunday. I guess I'll have to put up the Christmas lights that day. We might not get another day without rain before Christmas! Speaking of Christmas, I am going out with mom and Kristin tomorrow for the first Christmas-y event of the season. We are going for dinner and then to Glenda's Christmas Cottage. It smells so good in there...like mulled spices, and cider and cranberries. They have ornaments and decorations and unique gifts and things there. I'm hoping to find something for each of the kids as a keepsake. I can't wait!!

Kelly

Milestone, Matinee and Messes

Friday night Bentley and I went out for our 9th anniversary. Yep...count 'em...9 whole years. Wasn't too exciting...but we got out! Jake and Amy stayed at Grandma's house over night.

Then on Saturday, Bentley took Jake to the movies. They saw Megamind in 3D! They came home sporting some pretty stylin' 3D glasses. I really missed out! I guess that means I get to go next time! I actually enjoyed having the house to myself. Amy slept for over two hours while they were gone so I drank tea and made my Christmas photo cards and ordered them. Should be delivered soon....actually they should have arrive yesterday. I better check on that.

Sunday we just hung around the house while Bentley worked. Did mountains of laundry, cleaned a couple toilets and ignored the rest of the mess! I guess it was one of my "lazy" days. I have lazy days and then I have "shakedown" days where I go crazy dusting, cleaning, organizing and purging...there's a balance there somewhere and it all works out in the end I say...

Monday night we checked out the new SUPER walmart in Chilliwack. Pretty nice. We get one here soon too..except it's on the other side of town. I bet it'll be faster to drive to Chilliwack....

Yesterday we had a couple of minor blueberry juice disasters..let's just say carpet, Amy's favorite blanket, Jake's white school shirt and my kitchen chair were all involved in the fiasco. I said "what did I do to deserve this?" and Jake said "that's Karma mom!". Well I don't know where he came up with that one but I couldn't stop laughing. Later there was another mishap involving a freshly washed Amy, clean jammies and a jar of vaseline...do I need to say any more? It was a bad, messy night. The highlight was having chocolate cake and sparkling apple cider for our actual anniversary yesterday. Happy 9 year milestone to us!