Nanny

We took a little field trip to see my Nanny a couple of weeks ago.

She scolded me for not having a hat for Fin.  Grandmother through and through.

Look at those ears!  I think they are accentuated by her lack of hair.  Gotta love it.

DYI Snow Globes

We are pressing on doing one Christmas activity per day and today we made a Christmas craft.  Casey and I were at Anthropologie this past weekend on a Christmas shopping date night and Casey found these snow globes (Hudson calls them snow gloves.  He also calls Christmas trees Christmas treats.).

He told me I should make them.  I had already seen them on Pintrest and decided to give it a go.  I had a little help from my assistant.

He mostly dumped glitter in the floor.

Not totally the same but not too shabby either.  I just used mason jars, some trees that I found at Hobby Lobby, glitter, and styrofoam.  Very easy but very messy.  I'm still finding glitter.

Christmas Cookies

Each day Hudson has been drawing out a Christmas activity to do.  And by each day, I mean we've done it twice.  We seem to be pretty busy lately.  This past week he drew "make Christmas cookies" out of our basket.

 He is a good, but messy little helper.  He can work a sifter like nobody's business.

As you can see by the outfit change, it took a couple of days to complete our project.  Told you we have been busy.

It was worth the wait.  He has a new love of gingerbread cookies.

Murphy

Little Murphy has been showing up around our house for the first time this year.  The other day he was reading a book in Hudson's room.

Then he was riding our rooster.

We definitely get a bigger kick out of this than Hudson does.
Yesterday Murphy was eating some cereal on our kitchen table with Mr. Potato Head but Chloe got up there, ate the cereal and knocked Murphy over.  Guess we know one dog who is going on the naughty list.

The Bumbo

I had never heard of a Bumbo until I had kids.... of course there are a lot of things I hadn't heard of until I had kids but I digress.  This is a Bumbo.

Obviously for babies to sit in.  Not for 2 year olds to pee in as mine did yesterday.  Just pulled his pants down and started peeing in it.  It guess it kinds does look like a potty...

 

I was laughing to hard to discipline properly.

Drama Queen

We fed Finley "cereal" for the first time on Tuesday.

She hates it.

I'm used to my good eater who was borderline obese as an infant.  This ticky eating isn't going to fly around here.  Yesterday and today she was literally gagging and spiting it out.  Drama.  I don't even think she is keeping anything down.

Thanksgiving Events

Casey and I had our first taste of school plays the week before Thanksgiving.  And yes, the girl below Hudson did cry the entire time in case you were wondering.  It was hilarious even though they just sang a few songs.  Our little Hud was so cute in his little Indian headband and t-shirt.

Thanksgiving day was spent with lots of food and family and full bellies.

Vegas Baby!

Casey has been wanting to go to Vegas for forever.  I have had it in my head that I would take him there for his 30th birthday for about a year and a half.  Maybe more.  I've been working extra days to pay for it and keeping it a secret from him since he turned 29 last year.
I've been so excited to see his reaction. I booked the hotel, flight, a show, restaurant, had our bags packed and everything.  He thought we were spending the weekend at his parent's cabin in the mountains.  Hee hee. 

Thursday morning we had waffles in bed with Hudson.

And then I told Casey we were going on a surprise outing, blindfolded him and set off for the airport.

We got to the park 'n ride and he saw our suitcases sitting out and saw where we were.  He asked what was going on and where we were going.  I told him and he couldn't believe it.  He was so pumped up.
We had a great time staying at The Cosmopolitan, the newest hotel right on the strip. 

In the hotel lobby checking in.

 At Paris hotel after eating breakfast.  It was made to look like the streets of Paris: blue skies and all.

Lost inside Caesars Palace.  We swore not to go back inside after getting lost for 45 minutes.  It was HUGE.

 Chandelier bar inside our hotel.  Amazing.

Getting our eat on at the buffet.  Delicious!

We saw Cirque Du Soleil's "O" at The Belligio Friday night, ate a ton, Casey played some blackjack and I got a massage at the hotel spa.  We had such a relaxing and fun weekend but it was nice to come home to the kids.

Halloween: Year 3

The first year that we took Hudson trick or treating he was in tears getting in his costume, actually in his costume, in the car...  Last year he kept rubbing his makeup off, it got on his costume, he wouldn't leave his wig on, he was crying.... This year he woke up ill from his nap, was crying, his nose was running all over the place which made him cry worse...  

 Plus this year we has another crier to add to the mix.

Feel the burn.  

The weights were not my idea.  Hubby thought it would be hilarious.

Once we started trick or treating the tears dried up and Hudson was so into it.  He loved ringing doorbells and grabbing candy.  Finley did great too.  She started getting hungry and had to quit early but was a champ otherwise.

Pumpkin

 No, not that kind of pumpkin.  This kind:

 Saturday we had a family outing to a local pumpkin patch to pick up a couple of pumpkins.  Hudson picked a little one for himself and a big tall one for us to carve.  He and Casey worked on it after lunch.  Hudson helped him scoop out the guts and helped me pick out the seeds to roast in the oven.

Two boys proud of the finished product.