ho ho ho
i honestly had every intention of writing an update a while ago, but i’ve just recently swapped over to another laptop, and that put my plans on hold for a while. so there’s my excuse!
this christmas season was full of lots of fun activities for us. now that arthur is a bit older he can get more involved and we don’t feel like so funny now at kid’s events, as opposed to trying to get an 8 month old to do crafts. our town had wide array of fun christmas activities geared towards those 10 and under (and their parents who probably have 60% of the fun). it starts with the lighting of the main park here in town with lots of lights. we went to one such night to partake of the roving carolers, various firepits at strategic locations (to inhibit frost bite most likely), reindeer, free pasta and pizza (what’s christmas without a hot slice?), and free cookies and milk/egg nog. oh, and a TON of kids doing crafts and playing. there was also a small train that drove around in circles that eric took arthur on. ooh, and fireworks! on another night the town had a ‘parade of lights’ through our little downtown area and the floats were actually pretty cute and there were around 60 so it was a good, hefty parade.
we also participated in a cookie swap, which yielded many delicious cookies (i made ‘sell your soul pumpkin cookies’).
eric’s mom also came out to visit, thus enabling eric and i to sneak off for a few dates. eric’s office party was held at frasca, and it was pretty good. we also snuck out to see ‘2012’, and for our anniversary went to sugarbeet.
eric’s mom left a few days before christmas so it was just the 5 of us (don’t forget the pugs!) here yesterday. arthur slept in, passed out on the couch after getting up too early and eric and i got antsy, and maybe accidentally woke him up in our eagerness to see him play with new toys. his big presents were a rocking horse from my mom (grandma janiece), a pint-sized table and chair set (great deal!), and a ‘tickle-me elmo’. he loves all 3! he also enjoyed opening up our gifts, too. as did the pups (they got new squeaky toys).
and today eric finally made the decision to put to rest his not-so-trusty, old, broken, dying, ghetto phone and upgrade (finally, praises be) to an iphone. maybe he’ll mention it it in a post of his own, but let me say i wouldn’t be surprised if a small tear might have rolled down his cheek. 😉
and as for weather, we were lucky enough to have a white christmas! 😀
a small snowman i crocheted for arthur, the inside of the toys and craft area, santa!
partaking of egg nog and cookies, the three of us in line for pizza, munching fresh, hot pizza in the snow
train ride!, happy at the library, mimi and arthur
at the park in our neighborhood, relaxing, mimi’s birthday breakfast
turtle power, eric arthur and mimi at another park by us, eric arthur and myself
trotting along, the goods, early morning snooze-fest
yeehaw, well hello, awesome
happy camper