Apparently, I'm destined to continually be catching up with this blog. Heck - why not. Seems like that's how it is with every other aspect of my life.
Laundry, dishes, balancing checkbooks, showering (Ok - a little too much info??)
(just kidding... I never fall behind on the laundry)
So in one post I must cover Halloween, Christmas, New Year's, Valentines Day and President's Day!
Get Ready.
Halloween.
Sierra wanted to dress up as Ahsoka Tano (for all of you kid culture deprived people that is the warrior princess in Stars Wars the Clone Wars movie) Come to think of it, I'm not certain Sierra has even seen that movie, so don't ask me how she got the idea.
I'm not sure which task was more difficult - learning to pronounce the characters name correctly or making the costume.
Porter's costume idea changed daily through the whole month of September and October. Some of those ideas were quite abstract, but in the end we went for the no fail Mummy costume. It turned out pretty cute though.
Jeremy was extremely proud of his Nitanny Lion Jack-o-Lantern. (Make no mistake where our alliances lie.)
Next up... Christmas.
My goodness - what a wonderful wonderful time we all had this year! Jeremy's family (but unfortunately Papa couldn't make it) spent Christmas at our house this year.
There were 19 of us including 2 babies, 4 children, 3 teenagers, 2 newlyweds, 6 adults, and 2 "senior aged" people. Also 2 dogs, one lizard, and 1 cat. (okay so the lizard didn't really add much to the craziness.)
We spent our time skiing, sipping hot chocolate, cooking, EATING, shopping, sledding, hiking, Christmas light enjoying, Christmas story reading, sing-a-longing, Screwy-Lueying, hospital touring, giving, and getting. But most of all laughing! I just loved every minute of it.
I never tire of rehashing all the classic family stories, and even creating a few new ones... Kaiden you know what I'm talking about...
One of the greatest family stories includes the origination of the tradition of passing along the famous adult footed pink pajamas to the next anxious female in the family.
With 19 people, and the various gifts under the tree, it seemed as though Christmas really WOULD last forever!
Next up.. New Year's
Since we partied all night long and many awesome things happened, there is a ton to say about this....
Okay, just kidding - Jeremy went to work (for the 4th year in a row) and I watched Rockin' New Year's Eve with Ryan Seacrest or something like that with the kids.
There's always next year
Which brings us to Valentine's Day
We celebrated it with a heart shaped pizza on Saturday and on Sunday I left Jeremy to go visit my parents. (VERY ROMANTIC huh.) Actually, my sister and her kids are in town from CA so I had a good excuse to abandon him.
(Note: a separate post on my interesting hair color will be coming later)
Finally, Happy President's Day.
So - today is President's Day, and I'm not really sure what sentiments to say about it, except that it happens to be the day I'm posting this blog so I couldn't just IGNORE it now could I? That would be rude.
Fun catch up! I can't keep up w/ blogging either, but it's fun to catch up with everyone else!
ReplyDeletei have a hard time on top of our blog too so dont feel too bad :) i like the hair color change by the way and have been thinking heavily on doing something with mine(especially since with each pregnancy it has gotten darker(i hate it!) LOVED the ashoka costume you did a great job...how are you all settled in? jeremy liking work? sierra liking school? porter doing preschool?
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