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!

Grandma Bundy Comes!-Chicago

Thanks to Jon buying two tickets last year and not using them both, Grandma Bundy got to come and spend a week with us this holiday season! We were super excited! We took Liam out of school and Tony took off work and we headed to Chicago to pick Grandma up from the airport.

And really, you can't go to Chicago without doing some type of sight seeing. So we took Grandma to Willis (use to be Sears) tower.

Inside they had a huge Christmas tree. It was fake...;)

Afterwords we when to Giordano's for some of their famous Chicago style pizza. mmmm, delicious...drool...drool

And a word to the wise. Make sure that if you park in Chicago you read all the signs and the ticket thing that you get from the pay meter. Because unbeknownst to us, you can't park in places after 4:00. We got there at 3:30-ish and thought we were good, but came back to a fancy new parking ticket. Wahoo? But at least I can scratch another thing off my bucket list. Get a parking ticket in Chicago-check.

Oh, What do you do on Black Friday?

[Before you look at the pictures, may I apologize for the incredibly adorable little girl who likes to prance around in her underwear :)]

Oh, What do you do on Black Friday?

(sung to "Oh, what do you do in the Summertime?"...at least the way I sing it in my head, which is probably not at all correct.)

Oh, What do you do on black Friday, when all the stores are packed?

Do you make a pillow pit?

And jump on it?

And watch as your children fly by?!

So do I!

Christmas lists

As promised, here are our family's Christmas lists. I'd like you to pay special attention to Emma's first gift on her list (She wrote the whole thing backwards and right to left, I think that takes some kind of talent.). :) Please feel free to get them anything on their list, because sadly, I'm done shopping for their toys and didn't get anything on their list. I got better stuff :).

Liam-Remote car, transformer, a new game (PS3 or PS2), a book about animals, a big nerf gun, a scooby doo movie. :)
Emma- Doll house, baby, play food, kitchen, barbie movie. Unlisted, but that she's told me-baby, baby kitty, baby dog, pretty much if you go with anything baby, you should be good.

Fox has told me he wants a pumpkin...

Kira- Elf, Grinch who stole Christmas, muppets Christmas carol, Disney Universe-PS3, cute clothes (dress and sweater size 4-6, t-shirt 7-8, pants 6), $ to fix my old piano or just a new piano, any good cricut cartridges, tickets (air, and park) to Disneyland, preferably before Thanksgiving...

Tony-i-pad, apple tv, cannon T-1 (or any other nice camera), kitchen aid, HP deathly hallows, iron man 2, captain America, Thor.(We have a DVD and bluray player) (Do you notice that there is very little on this list that's under $50? How am I going to get this man anything?!)

Alright, there you go :)

It's winter!?

It's snowing right now. Big ol' fat flakes of snow.

This morning Emma got out of the bath tub and I started to get her dressed when she saw the sweater I had for her.

"I get to wear my sweater?!"

I said, "Yeah, because it's cold outside. It's snowing."

Getting all excited she exclaimed, "It's winter!?"

"um, yep."

"I didn't know it was winter already!"

"uh-huh"

"Do we still have our Christmas tree?!"

"No, we still have to have Thanksgiving."

"But I didn't know it was Christmas!"

I gave up.

When I told Tony he said, "Great. We are going to have a kid that gets just as excited about Christmas as you do."

He's a little bit weary about it because a few nights ago I couldn't sleep because I was so excited about Christmas. It's a ways away. I know. I just can't help myself.

Then as she was looking out our back window at our cars she said, "Mom! We need to shave our cars! They have snow all over them!"

Man, I love this time of year. And kids that get excited about it like I do. :)

us Bundy's love free stuff

Last month the company we rent from did a Halloween coloring contest. Our three kids all entered, and I'm pretty sure they were 3 of 6, so they all won!! WooHoo!! They each won a $5 gift certificate to Dairy Queen. So here we are being treated to dinner by our kids! It was awesome. I highly recommend having your kids pay for your dinner.

Every 1st Saturday of the month Home Depot offers a free project for kids to do. So this past Saturday we took the kids and they got to build their own wooden picture frames. They hammered the nails in place (with a little bit of help) and paint it! They enjoyed it. And I enjoyed seeing them with goggles on.


Man, I love free entertainment and stuff