A morning in the life of...

...Kensington and Smith!

Both kiddos woke up in their Christmas pjs and drank some milk while watching Bubble Guppies.

They are so excited that Mama found them Christmas Poptarts yesterday at Walmart!  Poptarts and oranges...the perfect breakfast!

Before we head out, Smith has to play with his cars.  What a boy!

We're on our way to pilates.  My kiddos love the kid's play area where I do pilates.  They always get excited about going.

Sweet girl!

Back at home, we colored our Thanksgiving Pilgrims before lunch.

Such little artists!

Then they wanted to play with Play-doh.  See how she's stacking hers on top of the canister...

...well, little brother has to do everything exactly like his sister!

We tried to go outside after lunch but it was too cold and windy, so the kids asked for more Play-doh, and I gave them Christmas Jingle Cookies to snack on while they played.

Kensington asked to watch Bambi in bed before her nap.

I was trying to snap a photo of Smith when I accidentally took this one.  Not bad, huh?!?!

Both kids watching a Mickey Mouse before heading to naps.

The end!  Mama has some laundry to fold now!

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Smith & Mommy's Day-cation

This morning, I woke Smith up at 7:00, loaded him in the car and we headed off to Canton.  Andrew was going to get Kensington to and from school, so that me and my boy could have a little day-cation :).  The weather was really chilly (43 degrees), so we sang Christmas carols all the way there (almost 2 hours of Buble carols!).

So cozy in the car with mama.

We met Lovie and her BFF Bree at Canton for some shopping.

We ate stuffed spuds and chocolate pie for lunch.  (I know this is a bad sunny photo but his expression is just too sweet!)

And we had the best day!  I love my boy so much!!

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It's good to have a passion in life...

...my kids' new passion is Halloween.  We've been talking about this holiday for two months but they didn't really get it until after the first house gave them candy...then they were obsessed!  Kensington has talked non-stop for two days about how she can't wait for Halloween to arrive again.  My kids have found their favorite holiday :).

We went over to my Mom's on Halloween night for dinner and trick-or-treating.  She always decorates things so cute!

Lots of cobwebs and spiders

Kensington was supposed to be Fiona from Shrek but after already wearing it to two other parties this year, she asked if she could be Cinderella instead.  (Thankfully, my brother had purchased her a Cinderella costume for her birthday).  So, here are Cinderella and Shrek.

Love you Andrew!

Then she decided she wanted to be a witch Cinderella...thus the broom.

And this is me catching her drinking Uncle Seanie's tea.

Shrek is ready to go!

Off they went to get tons of candy

Smith rode around from house to house

Then he would grab his big bucket and run

A glow necklace and candy?  Perfection for Halloween!

My crew watching the kids trick or treat (even Lola and Ellie came along)

They rode home together and shared a sucker,

Then we went through the loot.

Happy!

Tired!  I looked in the back seat on the way home and Kensington had taken Andrew's sweat shirt and covered herself up to go to sleep.  They had so much fun on Halloween!!

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Halloween Party!

Our dear friends the McAnallys, hosted a fabulous Halloween party last night and I did the WORST JOB EVER taking pictures.  Andrea's house was decorated inside and out super, super cute, the food was delicious and very creative, and everyone did a great job with their costumes.  Thank you so much Dave and Andrea for having us over!  We had so much fun!

 

Princess Fiona eating a cake ball

My favorite girlies!  Back row, Lori, Sheaffer, Rachel.  Front Row, Andrea, Erika, Me and Manda

All of the kiddos.  Fiona is standing on the hay biting her nails (ugg!) and Shrek is in front next to Carter the dinosaur.

Happy Halloween!

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Spook-tacular Day!

What a spook-tacular day we had yesterday!  First, Kensington's class all wore their pjs to school, so that was just too fun for her, then they had a class pizza party followed by a class Halloween party.  Andrew, Smith and I came up for the Halloween party and had so much fun!



Here she is (in her pjs) working on their Halloween party craft...making a place mat.

This is K with one of her best little buddies Brooke.

I was in charge of bringing dessert...of course.  I brought iced jumbo sugar cookies...and of course, I ate one myself!

For 45 minutes, this is what Smith did.  He is the most low maintenance kid ever.  Ever.

Ok, remember this post about Kensington's first day of ballet?  The thing is...she hated it.  We went 3 times and she cried every time.  I don't blame her...standing there for an hour doing plies is pretty boring (I took ballet for 15 years, so I can say that with confidence), so we tried gymnastics.  Well...it only took about 3 seconds for her to decide she LOVES gymnastics.  Yesterday, was our 6th lesson.  She loves it.  Loves it!  The only hitch is that she still wants to wear her ballet skirt and leotards to gymnastics...so please ignore that :).

I'm holding Smith and taking pictures through the glass, so please disregard the quality...do you see her there doing stretches.  So sweet!

Smith told me to take a picture of him, so here we are waiting an hour for K to finish gymnastics.

Kensington bouncing by us on the trampoline.

I know it's hard to tell but do you see her little feet at the end of the trampoline?  She's doing her front roll off.

This is how Smith sits for an hour every week.  He just sits in my lap and looks through the glass.  He has never asked to get down and run around...never cried...he just watches.  Haven't I mentioned the fact that he's low-maintenance yet?  :)

Walking across the lower balance beam.

Walking across the high balance beam.

Then, last night, Ebby Lee and Nixon came over for dinner while Tab and Erika went to dinner and ran some errands.  Our big plan was to roast hot dogs and s'mores out by the fire on the patio.  Well, it was raining, so we brought our campfire inside (so to speak).  Andrew still cooked everything outside, we just had a picnic inside instead.  So much fun!  I love these kiddos!

Andrew roasting s'mores in the rain for the kids (and me!).

Hope you're having a spook-tacular week too!

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