We wish you a Merry Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas! Dakota and Rory got alot of fun things, Dakota got his dinosaur he was practiclly praying for. I will have to put a picture up of this dinosaur...it is insane! Fuad and I got some great goodies and movies for one another,mostly brit comedies,that we began watching today. Paul and Jackie were able to come over,and we played Rock Band 2 and ate a ton! All in all it was a fun time. Then most of the occasions where we get to spend time together are always awsome! Anyhow,we would like to take this chance to wish all our friends and family a Merry Christmas,and we love you all very much!
Dakota and Rory playing with the dinosaur. Rory has an etch-a-sketch, but he is convinced it also controls the dinosaur!
Rory playing with some of Dakota's firefighter costume.
Dakota in his firefighter outfit Rory got him
Fuad watching Dakota try out his new remothe control dinosaur.
The beautiful scene before the kids woke up! What a blast we had.

Fuad in the middle of building the airport that goes with Dakota's train set.
Rory,he just looks so innocent.
Dakota with his new Wall-e toy
Rory opening a shake-and-go diego toy
Dakota's new remote control dinosaur.

Twas the morning before Christmas

Ok,these are just some pictures I took of Rory. Both my kids are overly hyper because it is almost Christmas. So these are of Rory,as he ran around in his pj's and a hat...I think he called Santa? I am not 100% sure. My poor Dakota was still not up for the picture taking. I am not trying to push him to do things if he isn't feeling great. as long as he feels better in time to enjoy his presents and spending time together. MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Sick

Dakota got one of his Christmas presents early... He got strep throat. =( He was not well and had to miss his holiday parade today. He kept telling me it was not fair, but his temp got up to 105.4 today! So I had him rest once we got back from the doctor,and once he woke up he finally felt like eating. Then he asked me "how many min. before I can be a snowman?" So I let him put his costume on and he danced around the tree for a little bit, but soon was worn out. My poor baby! Anyways, he has some antibiotics and we are hoping he feels all better by Christmas. In the meantime, enjoy the pictures of Dakota the snowman.

Christmas ornaments

The christmas ornaments that Dakota and I made for his preschool class. We had a blast!
Dakota posing by his new Wall-e pictures. He thinks they are so cool!

Ok,I got the idea for this out of a walmart magazine for holiday food ideas. The book had this idea for ice cream ornaments,where you make big balls of ice cream and roll them in sprinkles,and put on a reeses cup for the top. I thought it would be fun to do for Dakota's class,but not with ice cream. So I bought a couple of boxes of the pink snowballs,some red food color spray and some green icing. Topped them with a reeses cup,and done! I think they turned out way cute. I,of course had to let Dakota know this was the last labor intensive snack I would be doing for this school year! It was worth it though.His class enjoyed them very much,and we had alot of fun together making them.

breakfast with Santa

Yesterday we went to have breakfast with Santa. Lucky one of our neighbors got there super early,otherwise we may have never made it! It was held in a little bistro with maybe 16 tables. We waited for maybe an hour for our food....it was worth every moment!Dakota got to eat breakfast with his friends,and Santa went around and sang songs with everyone. Then today we went to play in the "snow". Never again will we spend the time or money. it was more like a little bit of ice slush on the ground and possibly up to 50 kids in this tiny empty lot. Still, Dakota and Rory enjoyed themselves. I guess that s the important thing!
Me and Dakota,waiting for our breakfast.
Dakota and Santa
Dakota with the coca-cola bear.

good times

Well, these are just some random pictures of our boys being...them. Rory and I went to playgroup at a friends house yestereday,and we built a gingerbread house. Rory was more into watching me,and of course eating! But later on he kept telling everyone to come and look at it. So Fuad decided to get a pic. Rory seems so proud when he accomplishes something. He helped me load dishes into the dishwasher and afterward I said "great Job Rory!" and he was just beaming!I love that my kids are building so much confidence.



Dakota was busy coloring,as you can see. I bought him the Wall-e movie for Christmas and the lady at the checkout gave me these coloring pages for each boy. Dakota has been practicing using all the colors of the rainbow in school. So as you can see,he felt he should apply the lessons here! He is so funny in how precise he is! Dakota is learning so much at school,I know he is going to do great in Kindergarden next year!

Growing and showing

Just look at her grow! I saw this picture and can't believe I have only gained 6 POUNDS! I hope I can keep it up! Fuad was taking pictures of the kids last night,and thought he would capture a few of me prego for the last time. He is just silly. I can't get over the fact that we only have about 3 1/2 months left. It seems like the time has just flown by. Should be interesting times ahead of us!