Holidays

The holidays have started! With thanksgiving last week and Christmas coming soon we are starting all our traditions and making new ones. This year for thanksgiving my sister in law and I did all the cooking. We decided the new tradition will be the men entertaining the kids while the women cook. Very old fashion I know. Every year the day after thanksgiving we do our tree. I Am strong believer that you have to wait until after thanksgiving to do Christmas decorations. We talked my mother in law into keeping the boys over night on thanksgiving so the next morning we packed up all the kids coats, hats and gloves and headed to get the boys and our tree. That night we put up our tree and decorated with all the ornaments the kids have made over the years. Another favorite tradition of mine. I can't wait till the kids are older and my tree is just filled with ornaments they have Meade and all of them are dated. The elf on the shelf ( whom Alex named Carly) has also found her way back to our house. The kids love waking up every morning to find where the elf has been hiding. The boys have gotten their first message from Santa...thank you portable North Pole and are getting excited. This weekend we are going out to get them their Christmas pajamas.. Another tradition. And once it is closer to Christmas we will make cookies with Sarah and Elle...yet another tradition. All our shopping is done and I can not wait to see the kids faces on Christmas. And not to long after the oil days are over we go into birthday mode with my birthday, my mother in laws and zach and Addie's all in January. I can not wait! I love birthdays more than I love Christmas! Hope everyone else is enjoying the old days. And yay to Mother Nature for giving us warm weather this week!

It's been awhile

I haven't posted in over a month! Crazy! We had a very busy last week of October. Rob was in Las Vegas for work and missed Halloween. But I took the kids to a Halloween party the Saturday before Halloween with Sarah and Ellie. They had a blast. Both boys also had parties at school which they loved. We did trick or treating with Kelly in Clarendon hills like we always do. The kids love Churchill street and all the decorations that they have. This was the first year that I didn't have to have a stroller with me in 7 years. How insane is that! But Addie was a trooper and walked the whole time until the end when I had to carry her a bit. And of course we stopped at grandmas and stole all her candy that was left over. Now that it is November we are going into the birthday and holidays for the next couple of months. It's insane that zach will be 5 and Addie will be 3 in just 2 months! Which means soon I will be done buying diapers! Something else I have been doing for the last 7 years! Rob is still going to be traveling for work, which sucks, but I guess that's why they pay him the big bucks! We will also hopefully be moving forward with the new house come January! Finally!!!!!! So many things going on!