Christmas Pics 2017

Hannah and I had fun taking some pics after we finished trimming the tree.  There were so many I liked that I wanted to share a bunch.

Ummm…can someone tell me when my baby grew up???

Love her silliness!

A couple of us together

Tree Trimming 2017

One of our favourite activities each year is trimming the Christmas tree and talking about all of our favourite ornaments and the stories that go with them!

This year was a little crazy at the beginning of December so tree trimming took place over 2 days about a week apart.

Night 1 was beads plus traditional Christmas balls.  Wonky strings of beads have become our new tradition and I love it!

The following week was our favourite part as we pulled out the decorations that Hannah has made over the years or those we’ve purchased to remind us of special people or occasions.

This year Hannah made me a beautiful love note of post-it notes that read, ‘Hannah, Love, Mommy! you love I’ (lol – It may be backwards but read right to left it reads, ‘I love you Mommy! Love, Hannah)

Making sure each part of the tree is properly adorned from top

to bottom.

And last but not least, angel time.

Oh how I love my silly girl!

The finished product!

The Annual Arrival of Bobble Chippey

As regular as clock work, Bobble Chippey made his reappearance the first Saturday in December and this year he arrived with a waffle breakfast in tow.

Let the elf antics begin!

8th Referral Day Anniversary

Better late than never…

August 21st is a special day to Hannah and I as it commemorates the day I received Hannah’s referral call on Aug 21, 2009!  She was just 5 1/2 months old at referral!!

A photo montage of referral day memories followed by our referral day videos at the end.

2017 (8.5yo)

2016 (7.5yo)

2015 (6.5yo)

2014 (5.5yo)

2013 (4.5yo)

2012 (3.5yo)

2011 (2.5yo)

2010 (10mos)

Halloween 2017–No Surprises Here!

Big surprise….this is my pumpkin…with our pumpkin

and her chosen costume…Mulan!  She even did her own make up.

Which I will say is far more subtle than the first time she did her makeup at 4yo  in 2014! 

We are Disney fans through and through as I’m sure you know so it was an easy decision of a costume and pumpkin pattern.  Secretly I’m SO thankful she’s still into a princess phase as sadly I know these days are numbered. When we found this costume at the Disney Store in the summer and she mentioned wearing it for Halloween I couldn’t say ‘yes’ fast enough!  *sign* I’m pretty sure it will be the last princess dress I buy for her.  Time passes far too quickly!

Back to last week’s activities!

Sunday afternoon we cleaned and carved our pumpkins.  Well, Hannah cleaned it

but then I kinda lost her when she got to the pumpkin guts.  She wanted nothing to do with carving and only wanted to squish and squash the pumpkin guts.  LOL – she even added sparkles to them!  Must say I’ve never thought of adding sparkles to pumpkin guts!

She’s come a looong way since this video taken in 2011 when she was 2 1/2.  Oh my heart!

Tuesday night we followed tradition and went trick-or-treating with her friends Noah, Grayson and Owen.

Upon returning home it was an adventure in sorting and recording her candy tally.  It was late but far be it from me to turn down the opportunity for some spontaneous math time!

Another Halloween is in the books and I can say with confidence that we were both happy to say goodbye to the scary decorations in the stores and welcome the beginning of the Christmas season with open arms!  We bought Christmas bows on Saturday and our home will be decorated (at least on the outside) shortly!