Trips always throw me off.
I know, I've been slacking in the blog department. After doing so well for a little while. Well, I have to say, I've accomplished a few things instead. My Christmas cards & note are all in the mail. And the Christmas tree is up. Thanks to much help from my holiday loving son! The tree is very well decorated at 4 ft and below. Everytime an ornament falls, I move it up to a higher branch. Every ornament we own I think is on that tree. I've never had such a full tree before because I usually just stop when it looks full. No, this year the tree was not "done" until all ornaments were on the tree. And they definitely fill up all the empty space in an artificial tree.
I just wanted to sum up our trip to Nevada. I took the kids to visit my parents in Henderson, NV for Thanksgiving. Unfortunately daddy only got Thanksgiving day off, so we left him alone on his busy work week to have Thanksgiving with his parents and siblings.
I had high hopes of relaxing, brought 2 books to read - and only read a couple pages of one on the plane there! No, I didn't relax. With the help of my parents, we kept the kids entertained. And of course they did some entertaining themselves (Dances and shows for the adults). But I must say first that I had a wonderful time doing it all! Even though I felt like I needed vacation after I came home. Sitting at my work desk was never so inviting!
Here's a random summary of the things we did on our Thanksgiving week:
-Arrived with Bubs in his Santa Suit
-Visit Great Grandma and played many games of Uno with her
-Dinner at Joe's Crab Shack - my request for crab!!! Bubs tried some and enjoyed it.
-Disney Store Outlet - one of my favorite places to visit & got some xmas shopping done.
-The Lion King at Mandalay Bay - the kids really enjoyed this performance
-Portraits of the kids at JCPenney's
-Learned to GeoCache with Grandpa and found 3 caches during our trip - see geocaching.com
-Visited Ethel M's Chocolate Factory and walked through the cactus garden. Braeden loved the big blow up Christmas decorations everywhere
-At night, drove through Sunset Park's The Gift of Lights: A drive-through holiday light show with several displays and millions of lights.
-Went back at night to Ethel M Chocolate's 13th Annual "Light the Night"
-Visited with my high school friend Nicole and her 2 son's 2 & 4 at Town Square. As a treat we ate at California Pizza Kitchen & all the kids got yummy desserts afterwards!
-Played endless games of Mario Kart & Neighborhood Games on the Wii with 4 players
-Introduced my mom to 4:30am shopping on Black Friday! But she got a lot of her xmas shopping done!
-The kids built a gingerbread house.
-Bubs colored what seemed like a million Thanksgiving & Xmas Coloring Pages printed off the internet.
-The kids also glued together placesettings for Thanksgiving Day, along with some Cricut pilgrims & indians, and gingerbread people.
-And then survived the trip home with Santa & K. It was a little unnerving as the lightening was clearly visible right outside our windows.
Whew. I think that was most of it. And I forgot to mention that the kids were up before 7 every morning!
Thank you Mom & Dad for putting up with us all week! You have to know how much we enjoyed ourselves - by the tears the kids cried about leaving! See you soon!! At our place.
I know, I've been slacking in the blog department. After doing so well for a little while. Well, I have to say, I've accomplished a few things instead. My Christmas cards & note are all in the mail. And the Christmas tree is up. Thanks to much help from my holiday loving son! The tree is very well decorated at 4 ft and below. Everytime an ornament falls, I move it up to a higher branch. Every ornament we own I think is on that tree. I've never had such a full tree before because I usually just stop when it looks full. No, this year the tree was not "done" until all ornaments were on the tree. And they definitely fill up all the empty space in an artificial tree.
I just wanted to sum up our trip to Nevada. I took the kids to visit my parents in Henderson, NV for Thanksgiving. Unfortunately daddy only got Thanksgiving day off, so we left him alone on his busy work week to have Thanksgiving with his parents and siblings.
I had high hopes of relaxing, brought 2 books to read - and only read a couple pages of one on the plane there! No, I didn't relax. With the help of my parents, we kept the kids entertained. And of course they did some entertaining themselves (Dances and shows for the adults). But I must say first that I had a wonderful time doing it all! Even though I felt like I needed vacation after I came home. Sitting at my work desk was never so inviting!
Here's a random summary of the things we did on our Thanksgiving week:
-Arrived with Bubs in his Santa Suit
-Visit Great Grandma and played many games of Uno with her
-Dinner at Joe's Crab Shack - my request for crab!!! Bubs tried some and enjoyed it.
-Disney Store Outlet - one of my favorite places to visit & got some xmas shopping done.
-The Lion King at Mandalay Bay - the kids really enjoyed this performance
-Portraits of the kids at JCPenney's
-Learned to GeoCache with Grandpa and found 3 caches during our trip - see geocaching.com
-Visited Ethel M's Chocolate Factory and walked through the cactus garden. Braeden loved the big blow up Christmas decorations everywhere
-At night, drove through Sunset Park's The Gift of Lights: A drive-through holiday light show with several displays and millions of lights.
-Went back at night to Ethel M Chocolate's 13th Annual "Light the Night"
-Visited with my high school friend Nicole and her 2 son's 2 & 4 at Town Square. As a treat we ate at California Pizza Kitchen & all the kids got yummy desserts afterwards!
-Played endless games of Mario Kart & Neighborhood Games on the Wii with 4 players
-Introduced my mom to 4:30am shopping on Black Friday! But she got a lot of her xmas shopping done!
-The kids built a gingerbread house.
-Bubs colored what seemed like a million Thanksgiving & Xmas Coloring Pages printed off the internet.
-The kids also glued together placesettings for Thanksgiving Day, along with some Cricut pilgrims & indians, and gingerbread people.
-And then survived the trip home with Santa & K. It was a little unnerving as the lightening was clearly visible right outside our windows.
Whew. I think that was most of it. And I forgot to mention that the kids were up before 7 every morning!
Thank you Mom & Dad for putting up with us all week! You have to know how much we enjoyed ourselves - by the tears the kids cried about leaving! See you soon!! At our place.
