While Win and I have a quiet moment I'll try to catch up on the past few days....
On Saturday morning we were awoken by a fire engine in the street. Isabelle was the only one who went outside in time to see Santa delivering candy to the kids on the street... the rest of us just thought that there was someone in distress....
So the kids ate tootsie rolls and peanut butter cups and all kinds of other things. Apparently Santa does this every year in the neighbourhood.
Crystal and her boys took us sledding. Just at the end of their hill there is a baseball diamond that is surrounded by great slopes for sledding. It had snowed the night before and so it was perfect conditions.
We all bundled up and played in the snow for an hour or two. George and I crashed our toboggan twice, flipping upside down and George being the one stuck on the bottom sliding face first through the snow... he decided I was not a very good partner after that!
Crystal's boys taught the kids how to roll snow boulders. They rolled a large ball for the base of a snow man and then Isabelle rolled another but would not part with it when it came time to use it for the head. She kept rolling hers bigger and bigger until it was bigger than her. At that point she perched herself on top and refused to move or allow any one to touch it.
So we made another snow man nearby. In the mean time Isabelle somehow turned her big snow ball into a car/ snow mobile. When the other kids saw her snow mobile they had no interest in the boring snow man and they all just wanted to ride in hers.
So the boys put a side car on it and some wheels and that was the winning design of the day.
The Scott's had a big family Christmas party at Win's Grandma's house. All the extended family that could come were there. There was lots of very very good food, and even a few "salads" that involved jello, berries and cream.
The kids all did a lovely nativity that is a yearly tradition and Win and I were privileged to be Mary and Joseph. George was the youngest baby so was supposed to be baby Jesus but he refused, wanting to dress up as a shepherd, and throwing himself flat on the floor in tantrum position until we conceded.
They also played a great game of present swapping where everyone bought a recycled or unwanted gift and everyone got in a circle and had to pass their presents around until everyone had a random gift, then we took it in turns opening them. The catch was that if you had not yet opened your present you could choose to 'steal' one of the opened presents. each gift could be stolen 2 times. The gamble was not knowing if what you were swapping was a better gift because it was still wrapped. Win thought he'd scored a great latex moulded pillow but it got stolen from him again. In the end I stole a box with great big pancake mix and cider cinnamon drink, and Win stole a present full of bathroom products.... at least we will eat and bathe for a few days when we find ourselves a house!
The next day we went to church, a lovely ward that put on a Christmas musical presentation.
In the middle of sacrament Isabelle called out; "I want some more of that bread, America makes really yummy bread!"
I am pretty sure the whole ward heard that one, but I had to agree with her... their bread was sweeter!
Crystal's boys taught the kids how to roll snow boulders. They rolled a large ball for the base of a snow man and then Isabelle rolled another but would not part with it when it came time to use it for the head. She kept rolling hers bigger and bigger until it was bigger than her. At that point she perched herself on top and refused to move or allow any one to touch it.
So we made another snow man nearby. In the mean time Isabelle somehow turned her big snow ball into a car/ snow mobile. When the other kids saw her snow mobile they had no interest in the boring snow man and they all just wanted to ride in hers.
So the boys put a side car on it and some wheels and that was the winning design of the day.
The Scott's had a big family Christmas party at Win's Grandma's house. All the extended family that could come were there. There was lots of very very good food, and even a few "salads" that involved jello, berries and cream.
The kids all did a lovely nativity that is a yearly tradition and Win and I were privileged to be Mary and Joseph. George was the youngest baby so was supposed to be baby Jesus but he refused, wanting to dress up as a shepherd, and throwing himself flat on the floor in tantrum position until we conceded.
They also played a great game of present swapping where everyone bought a recycled or unwanted gift and everyone got in a circle and had to pass their presents around until everyone had a random gift, then we took it in turns opening them. The catch was that if you had not yet opened your present you could choose to 'steal' one of the opened presents. each gift could be stolen 2 times. The gamble was not knowing if what you were swapping was a better gift because it was still wrapped. Win thought he'd scored a great latex moulded pillow but it got stolen from him again. In the end I stole a box with great big pancake mix and cider cinnamon drink, and Win stole a present full of bathroom products.... at least we will eat and bathe for a few days when we find ourselves a house!
The next day we went to church, a lovely ward that put on a Christmas musical presentation.
In the middle of sacrament Isabelle called out; "I want some more of that bread, America makes really yummy bread!"
I am pretty sure the whole ward heard that one, but I had to agree with her... their bread was sweeter!
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