The Favorite Gift

Blake got a harmonica for Christmas, a last minute thing I bought at Walmart since his generic/fake one broke a couple of weeks ago. It was his favorite thing. He took it to Gma and Gpa's with us and entertained us all!

x-mas party

I decided to go to Blake's school Christmas party and I'm so glad I did. First the kids had a book exchange present and Blake got a Thomas book - yeah!

after the present exchange the each decorated their own 'christmas tree' a sugar cone decorated upside down with green frosting and candy for ornaments.

Then they got another book from Little Lambs, Miss Colleen tried to read the books to the kids but I think they were all hyped up on sugar so they ended up just having the kids run all around the room. The kids would line up against the wall and all count to 10, then run around like crazy and then all go back to the wall. It was so cute to see Blake interact with all of his friends at school and to see how happy he is there :-)

I don't like snow!

On Monday I bought a canon rebel slr camera - which I have always wanted. Yesterday I sat at work and watched it snow all day thinking about taking photos of Blake outside in the snow and how cool they would turn out with my new camera, except that when I tried it he told me, "Mom - I don't like snow, lets go inside" :-(

cheap detergent!

Walgreens has a special ad out with coupons for Arm & Hammer Detergent $1.99, go here

http://www.armandhammer.com/ and go to the 'get coupons' tab for $1 off, and get detergent for 99 cents!

school photo

I just thought Blake's school photo turned out so cute!

Santa visit

I was so excited to see if Blake liked Santa this year. Last year he did not like him and getting a photo was quite an ordeal.

We talked about meeting Santa for a week and what we were to tell him we wanted, it started out Blake wanted a small present, then he wanted a yellow present, and when I was like what do you want in your small yellow present, he said, M&M's and that is what he has now been saying he wants for Christmas!

So on Saturday morning we went to my work for the kids visit with Santa and he was so excited to see Santa, but then when he saw him, decided he didn't want to sit on his lap for a photo. So we hung out for a bit and a gave him a camera and we took some photos of Santa. Then I realized Santa was giving out chocolate in the bags, so when I told Blake that he said we could at least go get some chocolate. We went up together to get the chocolate and talked to Santa for a bit, told him what he wanted - 'a tree with m&m's under it!'. Then I asked if we could do a photo and he said , okay! and I think it turned out pretty good! It helped with it being at my work and having some time to get to know Santa.

I'm so excited for Christmas morning!