Finally Snow!!

It finally snowed today! Which is crazy because yesterday I hung outside without a coat in 62 degree weather. Today...is freezing! But we love the snow...at least for the first three days of it :)

A little bit of awesome randomness named Fox

Yes, this is what we proudly teach our children. And the red homeless boy hat pictured above-I don't know why he is so attached to it, but he is, and he wears it every where! And I always thing to myself, "I cloth my child, and feed him, occasionally bathe him, so why does he want to look like a homeless child?"

Christmas 2011

Christmas this year was very relaxing. We got up looked at what Santa brought, got dressed, went to church, came home, opened presents, and then played with our gifts the rest of the day! It was awesome. So here's some pictures of Christmas.

Waiting to go down stairs to see what Santa brought

Liam got a super cool hotwheels race track called blutrack! It suction cups on to a surface (in this instance, our door) and then is forever long! We played with it most of the day :)

Chicago's Children's Museum

When we took Grandma Bundy back to the airport we decided to stop by the Children's Museum in Chicago. It was AMAZING! No, really, it was one of the coolest places I have ever been. We were there for 3 hours and was not able to get to all of the floors (there are 3 floors). We could have stayed there all day, it was awesome. The kids were entertained non-stop and we all were sad to leave :). So if you ever decided to go, try and find a coupon ($12 bucks a pop, but still worth the money...if you have it...we got in for free! hehehe), plan to be there most of the day (it's at Navy Pier, so you can leave the museum at lunch time, get some food at the food court and then head back in for round two), and here's a ridiculous amount of pictures so you know what fun your in for.

Pirate ship climby-thing

It went all the way up through all three floors

Building place

Backyard

Made you feel like you were in bugs life

Dino dig

Ice and snow (traveling exhibit)

Liam and Grandma building an igloo

Liam in the igloo

some random kid knocking over the igloo, while Liam is still in it :)

Tony, Emma and Fox ice skating

Happy Emma

Water works

Learning how to crawl under smoke

Happy Liam

Super sweet!

Gingerbread houses 2011

We decided to make gingerbread houses while Grandma Bundy was here. We spoiled ourselves with ridiculous amounts of candy and let our/the kids imaginations run wild. I'm never real good at making the gingerbread, I always make too little, so this year our roofs (rooves? roofes?) are made out of cardboard. 'cause we're cool/ghetto like that. :) My favorite part was the fisherman that Tony and Liam created (pictured below). Liam worked with Tony, Emma worked with me, and Fox ate candy while Grandma worked on theirs.

Oh, Christmas Tree

Blogger is being extra dumb today, so I hope this works. We decided to wait until Grandma came to get a Christmas tree. We didn't get one until the 7th of December! It took all my will power to wait that long, but it was worth it! We went in the middle of the day on Wednesday and realized that many Christmas tree lots weren't open. But it worked out to our advantage! We found a "cut your own Christmas tree" place, a town over. It was perfect! They had a forest of Christmas trees to choose from so we walked around trying to choose the best one for us. Then Tony and the kids cut it down :). After they had a little building that we could wait in while they shook and bundled our tree (they even tied it down to the top of the van!). Inside there was hot chocolate, candy canes, and a cozy fire. It was awesome!! And so fun!