Advent 2017

Advent 2017...

1 - Start Advent Reading Book (only lasted a few days as it was a bit over our 5 & 2 year olds head - maybe next year!)

2 - Downtown Abby Christmas Tree Lighting

3 - CLCC Kids Christmas Performance "Back to the Manager"

4 - Mail Christmas Cards

5 - Rock around the Christmas Tree

6 - Christmas Crafts

7 - Christmas Movie "Charlie Brown Christmas"

8 - Act out the Christmas Story

9 - GLOW

10 - Twinkle Tour

11 - Puzzle!

12 - Snack under the tree

13 - Hot Coco!

14 - Give to Someone in Need

15 - Sully's ACS Christmas Performance

16 - Food Bank Drive

17 - Abby Christmas

18 - Candlelight Dinner

19 - Brinner

20 - Snowman Pancakes

21 - Travel to Nana & Papas

22 - Play in the snow!

23 - Morgan Family Fun!

24 - Christmas Eve Service

Christmas Brinner 2017

For the 6th year in a row we have celebrated Christmas Brinner with our good friends!  Brinner - means brunch for dinner and this year was SO GOOD - can you say lemon, ricotta pancakes?!  Also, mandatory for the evening is to wear your Christmas jammies :)  Here are some pictures from our night.

the littlest - Evy (5 months) and Abby (2 months)  

sleeping brinner babies

Christmas movie time - it lasted approx 10 min :)

all the kids - 8 kids in 5 years!

the mamas with their babies - thankful to be doing life along these people!  may our babies remember  memories from these nights for years to come!

Abbotsford Family Christmas

We celebrated our little family Christmas on Sunday night - I always enjoy our special time together just our little family!

We ordered White Spot take our for our Christmas dinner - best decision!

Christmas dinner - candle lit take out - we're fancy like that!

Branson helping Evy open her gift - while she was all heart eyes for her daddy :)

Everly loved her gift - a new teether!

and the boys were pumped on their walkie talkie's - they basically think they just scored cellphones :)

and for everyone - new slippers! 

reading the Christmas story and talking about why we receive gifts at Christmas

in their stockings - their new ornament for the year

never will we have a 5 year old - 2 year old - 5 month old at Christmas again - though we are exhausted, I still don't want to forget these special times!

it was a merry evening indeed!

Miss Everly Mae - 5 Months!

Weight - 14.5lbs

Height - 24.5 inches

Feeding - Not much has changed in the food department in the past month.  You still feed between 5-7 times a day.  

Sleeping - Also, not much change here.  You are napping three times a day and going to be well at 7ish every night.  You sometimes sleep for a wonderful, long stretch and only wake once for a feed in 12 hours; other times (the majority of nights) you are up twice to eat.

Milestones - You are confidently rolling from your tummy to your back and you very badly want to roll the other way, but get stuck getting your booty over.  You like like sitting in your bumbo and enjoy your exersauser.  You have very good eye, hand coordination and are very good at bringing EVERYTHING to your mouth!  Your two bottom front teeth just poked through a few days ago.  You found your voice this past month and love to "chat" with us.  You are still a very smiley little girl and love when someone comes into the room and pays attention to you!

Likes - Music, your family, the bath, your lion toy, your bee toy.

Dislikes - Being put down for a nap, rolling over in your sleep.

Fun Times - This past month you enjoyed a visit from Auntie Becca, celebrated your first American Thanksgiving, went to your first Christmas tree lighting and Twinkle Tour (it wasn't your favorite), participated in our advent activites and celebrated Abbotsford Christmas!

GLOW

Since Sully was a baby we have gone on a family fun night, in December, with the Wiens - we have been to many a light filled event - this year we checked out the brand new "Glow" and it was GREAT!  Last year we enjoyed Enchant which was downtown Vancouver, with terrible paid parking and the night we went it was chilly!  Glow was all of the awesome of Enchant, but WAY closer to us (Langley), parking was free and it was inside a huge greenhouse so was nice and warm once we were inside - win, win, win!!!

Just a dad and his 3 kids about to get their Glow on :)

their were food vendors outside - this was the most expensive potatoe on a stick I have ever eaten, but sooo yummy!

ever since Sully painted a nutcracker he has been spotting them everywhere!

Santa was there - so of course we had to chat with him and take a pic

there was "snow!"

and dry ice!

and HANGING TUBE LIGHTS!!!  Which of course was our favorite part - it is weirdly stimulating and wonderful!

the premise of the displays is you are looking for Santa's missing gifts and if you find them all you get a prize at the end - Sully enjoyed the scavenger hunt part

light tunnel

Our crew. What a fun evening we had! Christmas lights with kids adds an entire extra element of magic!