Monday, December 29, 2014

Crazy busy past two weeks!

We began the week with some brother-sister bonding over nut spreads! Kiery LOVES chocolate soread and Ronan prefers peanut butter!

 

The next few days were spent packing and running last minute errands before our trip to Kansas!

On Wednesday morning Kieryn had her first school Christmas program! She was so excited! I surprised her with a new headband to wear with her dress. She loved it!



All grown up... (tear)



Then on Wednesday evening we loaded up the kids, a packed supper, and our suitcases and headed to BWI! The kids were so excited to fly to Kansas. Luckily it was late enough that they slept most of the flight and all of the car ride back to Seneca.


BWI had a little play area where we got some energy out and had our picnic.



While in Kansas, we played lots of fun games...



sang lots of songs and danced...


caught up with friends...



did some crafts...


enjoyed the farm life...






snuggled with family...




and of course, OPENED LOTS OF PRESENTS!




  

We arrived back in PA on 12/23, so we did some relaxing, unpacking, and helped Daddy with some work...


Then we enjoyed our own family Christmas!






Then on Friday we packed up again and headed to Maryland for Christmas with the Copp family...
AND MORE PRESENTS!



Don't worry, it's just a marshmallow shooter! Uncle Kevin had more fun with it than the kids did! :)



The highlight of the visit was the metro ride into DC to see the trains and Christmas trees around the White House. The kids LOVED riding the metro!






Hope you and yours had a wonderful Christmas and have a very Happy New Years!

 Until next year...



Sunday, December 14, 2014

It'll be a Very Merry Christmas!

We did not do an alphabet letter this week.. Instead, we did a bunch of Christmas/winter activities. We did games and read lots of Christmas books. The kids had a really fun week as we prepared for the holidays!

We began with Christmas cookies on Sunday evening! They were delicious and nice to have all week long!


On Monday we did some winter paintings. Both kids really had fun with this activity!





We also did "build Santa" magnets on the fridge. This lasted for several days!


On Tuesday morning we made Christmas pancakes and used cookie cutters to make different holiday shapes!



Later that morning we played some games... feed the snowman was Kieryn's favorite...



The North Pole ring toss was Ronan's favorite...


Kieryn wanted a challenge so she went up a step after each time she made it.


Later we played trains and dress-up... couldn't resist... it was very hard to take Ronan seriously when he was showing me the cracks in the track...so stinking cute!


That night we built marshmallow snowmen for dessert... and of course, listened to the Frozen  "Do you want to build a snowman" song as we did it!


On Wednesday we played a present memory game. Kieryn played this for a long time...


While Kieryn was at preschool, Ronan enjoyed a gymnastics class...



Then on Thursday morning we awoke to SNOW! Perfect for this week!


Kieryn was so excited that at 7 am she put on her snow pants... I tried to distract her from begging to go out with some snowflake hopping to Christmas music...



and a candy cane fishing game... but they were both short lived because both kids were super excited to go outside!



So by 8:00am we were outside playing in the snow. Surprisingly, both kids were having fun for just over an hour before they complained of the cold...



So we came in and warmed up with some "warm" chocolate and a snack... 


and then later a snowman crash game. We used socks as pretend snowballs!


Sadly, that night, both kids were sick with the flu... so we had a very relaxing and slow Friday... Ronan needed both of his friends after such a rough night...


By that evening they were both feeling better so I surprised them with Christmas socks for some pretend ice skating and dancing... which turned into chasing... but fun either way. In these pictures, Ronan is trying to freeze me so I will stop taking pictures... so funny when they both do it!



We are very excited about our upcoming trip to Kansas! The kids and I will be there from 17-22. Kansas here we come!