Weekend Wrap Up

Well, snow was predicted to fall all day Saturday in our neck of the woods...so we decided to get out on Friday night. We took the kids to the Choo Choo Barn in Strasburg. They had a special...bring in canned goods, get in for free. Well, we thought it was a great idea...so did about 1500 other people! We stood in line for 40 minutes....and that just got us in the front door! Yikes. It was another 40 minutes until we got inside. I'd like to say that the boys were all patient....but....
Really...Connor, jackson and Mitchell did awesome. Sawyer...well....let's just say everyone in the line knew that Sawyer wanted to keep moving. Anyway, we had a great time. There is so much to see!! We will definitely go back...when the line is shorter....

Then...as predicted....those News 8 meterologists are soooo good....it snowed!
Craig left the house early to take care of things at the Host...when he got home, he took the boys outside...then I headed to work.

Here's Sawyer braving the snow and wind.
Jackson was next out. (Connor is not pictured as he ran back inside after having a wardrobe malfunction!)

This is heading out the lane...looking at the houses across the street. I had to put it in four wheel drive and take off down the lane!

This is the intersection of Route 30 and Bowman Road. NO ONE was out shopping the outlet strip! That's a big deal since it was the last weekend before Christmas...
It took me about an hour or so to do a trip that usually takes about 20 minutes. Once I got to work, we went on the air a lot!! We ended up getting about a foot of snow..though some places near us had two feet! Holy Cow! Looks like we'll have a white Christmas!

My Visit to Kindergarten

I had a great time on Friday!!!! I visited Connor's Kindergarten class to help make gingerbread houses. Connor and I had been looking forward to this day for weeks! It was so exciting....

There were a lot of moms and dads and grandmas in Mrs. Jones' class. The kids made antler hats to wear while we made our gingerbread houses. So cute.

Before they got started, Mrs. Jones explained exactly what we were doing and how to do it. The kids adore her...its neat to see the impact she has on them.

Here's Connor listening in. I love his buddy on the other side of the table...he's so intent!

The blank canvas....hmmmm, what should we do??? Let's start with some frosting....

We shared a table with Annika, Aleigha and Jaden.

Hershey kisses...lots of hershey kisses....

It was so fun to see Connor create! Honestly, I did very little except squeeze the icing bag.

This is Jaden's finished product. Gorgeous.

Connor didn't want to put on his antlers at first...I finally convinced him to put them on and he insisted I take a picture. Too much.

All done!

Cookie!

We've had a sweet week at our house. On Monday Grandma came over and we baked until we were silly. Connor told Grandma he thought she could open her own bakery because she's such a good baker!

Here they are hard at work. Connor loved using the rolling pin...though he did get bored after a few minutes.

What they really wanted to do was decorate the cookies. They couldn't wait until Grandma made her frosting (she calls it a dump recipe...you dump a little of this and a little that in a bowl and viola!)

Note that we did the cut outs and the decorating while Sawyer and Mitchell napped! I'm no dummy.

It was only after Craig got home that we introduced Sawyer into the wonderful world of sugar! By the way, the end results are delicious!!!