National Child Day, Work Party, and Lots of SNOW!!!

This week was National Child Day. Every year our area has a free thing that is fun for the younger kids to go to. They do crafts and stuff. I like quality activities that are free. =)

This gym kids stuff is pretty cool.

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Neil learning about how to be safe around electricity.

Tegan loves to color.

Matthew's work party was also this week. We always go to Celebrations Dinner Theatre. It was a good time as usual. This year the theme was Glee. Matthew's parents have an anniversary always close to the time we go, so they are always asked to come up on stage. We make sure to make it known that it is their anniversary. Good times. Uncle Devin got up on stage a couple of times. First to dance with the scary gym lady and then to do the macarena. =) It was pretty hilarious.

It snowed a bunch this week. Freshly fallen snow is so pretty. =)

Dress of the Week

Aww... Tegan taking care of her baby.

We also had parent-teacher conferences this week. They have improved so much this year. Jamin is growing up and is a star student in his class. It is so happy to see. Gordon does a good job on his work. Sometimes he can be a real handful, but he has a great teacher.

Gordon's 6th Birthday!

The morning of Gordon's actual birthday. He got to open a present. He was so happy.

A couple days later we had a small party for him at a movie theatre. So of course I had to make a popcorn bucket cake. I was so proud of myself until Matthew told me he thought it was like a guy or something and the popcorn was hair. lol. Oh well. The red stripes were made with fruit roll-ups and I made homemade caramel popcorn and glued it on with a little buttercream frosting.

Gordon and some of his buddies and new toys.

... and the celebration continues. We hadn't had a chance to sing happy birthday to Matthew's Dad yet because we were both gone over that time. So we did that and he blew out the candles with some help from Gordon.

Then Gordon got to open his last present. It was a good one. =0)

Catching up - some Dresses of the Week

I love this skirt. It is a Children's Place one that I found at a consignment shop for like 3 dollars. Hurray for deals!

We drove down to the states and flew out of North Dakota to save some cash, so while I was down there Matthew let me run into Target for a "little" Christmas shopping (everything costs more up here). I picked this outfit up while I was at it. It is amazing how you take things for granted when you are not around it. I never went to Target when I lived in the states, but that place is awesome.

I found this dress at Winners. They have name brand stuff that costs less, you just have to keep your eyes open to find the super cute stuff. There is a lot to look through.

It is difficult to get her to pose for a picture lately, but she did pretty good with this one.

Vegas Scrapbooked

Notes by Jamin/ put together by Mommy

So I really wasn't looking forward to our Vegas trip. Vegas is not my favourite place. We were only going there because Matthew had a convention that he needed to go to there. But you know, we had fun. We made it fun. There is not a ton of kids stuff in Vegas that you probably couldn't do anywhere else, but we found all that we could and stayed busy. My favourite parts were the Hoover Dam and the Springs Reserve. The kids favourite places were the Adventuredome, Blue Man Group, and the Hoover Dam. The only thing I definitely would not have done if I were to go back was go to the giant screen on the ceiling at downtown Vegas. It was a very unpleasant environment. We did not stay there long. But overall, there were good memories made there, it was nice to spend quality time with the kids and it was an educational experience for them.