Family Fun Days

Starting on Sunday we have had tons of family time and I just love it. At night when we have been sitting around the dinner table I feel like we are a picture of what family life is supposed to be. Those times I truly treasure up and try to soak it all in, but lets start with Sunday morning.

The children's choir at church did a little Christmas show at church on Sunday morning and it was so incredibly cute! I just love it when they sing. At the end of the blog is the video of the performance. At the rehearsal Shelby stood tall and sang loud, but once it was show time, a little stage fright set in and she just kind of stood there and moved her lips. She is so funny!

After church we met Aunt Suzy, Uncle Patricio, Sebastian, Grammie and Papa John at the clubhouse for Brunch with Santa. We knew that this would be tricky as Shelby has an extreme fear of the man in the red suit, but we were hopeful that it could be pulled off. Well, it didn't go to well and it took nearly 10 minutes just to get her in the clubhouse and then once we were in she hid behind a chair in the corner down the hall from the room that Santa was in. We had to ask to be moved to a different table because they had us set up in a room right next to the room that Santa was in, but it all worked out and after many talks and reassurances, we were able to enjoy brunch. JP went to meet Santa, but wouldn't sit on his lap or talk to him. He whispered in my ear to tell Santa what he wanted.

We enjoyed a really fun evening and dinner at home, just us and then went to bed. Around midnight JP got sick and that ended my night of sleep. Poor little guy was really sick...but, why does that always happen in the middle of the night. My children never get sick, have bloody noses, or anything like that during the day, it is always in the middle of the night....so weird!

Monday we took it easy around the house and by the time evening can around JP was as good as gold and we had another really great family dinner. After dinner we decided to decorate the gingerbread house and gingerbread train that the children picked out from Target. They had so much fun and JP ate more candy than he put on his train. His favorite thing was the candy cane. Here is a picture of Daisy getting in on the family fun.

JP and his train

Shelby and I with her house

I don't know if you knew, but Monday night/Tuesday morning we had a meteor shower. Pratt came up with the idea to get up early to watch it because they said that they best time to view the shower was at 6. So we set the alarm to get up at 5:50 to lay out some mats and blankets for us and then got the children up and bundled up to go out in the f-r-e-e-z-i-n-g cold!!! We saw about 5-8 shooting stars and had so much fun. Shelby didn't really care about what was going on in the sky; she was way to concerned about every little noise she heard and didn't want any animals to come get us. JP thought is was a great adventure and I think that he really did see some of the shooting stars. At about 6:30 we all came inside and had hot chocolate at the table together before we started the race of getting ready for school.

JP, Shelby and I watching for shooting stars

Here is the video from the Christmas performance at church.....

Okay, so after waiting for 4 hours for the video to upload it didn't...I will work on it and hopefully post it under a separate blog.