Masquerade! Paper Faces on Parade....

Sarah: BOYS!
J: Not me!

D reading a book with a Facebook logo on the title page ~
D: Look, Mom, I have an iPod too!

Me: What are you doing?
J: I'm teaching the TV to Home!  (Home is JJ's favorite movie right now)

Me: What're you doing?
J: Gud!


Me: Did you guys have fun at jumping?
J: Sure.

D: But we need to go to Sarah's! We need to go to Sarah's!
Me: We'll go back to Sarah's after we get burritos for the moms.
J: And Coltons!
Me: Colton's not a mom!

J: You have to run slow, Mom.
Me: Okay, J, I'm pretty sure I can handle that.

(12/29) Work day for Dad and me, Grandma & Granddad had the littles, and C was off at a birthday party. I got the littles' snow stuff all together so they could go up and play in the mountains, only to leave the car seats in my car when I left for work. Argh!  I had a short work day today, and C ended up staying the night with his friend, so we had a quiet night to ourselves.

(12/30) Work day for Dad and me, and Amanda had the kiddos.  I worked a short day again today, and was off before Dad, so went and grabbed the kiddos when I was done.

(12/31) The last day of 2015 was awesome!  Nanan came to stay with the boys while we got to go on a date day/night.  We saw the new Star Wars, which we loved.  Then we hit our favorite restaurant for sushi.  And then off to a masquerade for the countdown.  The littles did poppers with Nanan, and C actually made it to midnight this year.

(1/1)  Happy New Year!  We relieved Nanan and were home for a little while before packing up the twinsies to go to Grandma & Granddad's house while the three of us went to a hockey game.  Tips won! Woohoo!

(1/2) I managed to catch JJ's cough, so decided on a long walk with Sarah this morning instead of a run.  It was super slick out, so that was probably a good choice.  Cass-puppy (aka Ser Floppin) flopped, snow-plowed, and slid all the way down the big hill while I picked my way down slowly.  Cracked me up!  I'll have to video it next time.  After I got home, Dad went out to run some errands and I got to work getting Christmas put away.   C has been having a grand time making robots out of all the things in our recycle bins... which is great, until all the scraps are ALL.OVER.THE.FREAKING.PLACE.  Drives me batty to have the house so out of order.  I dragged the book shelf back up for the boys to put all their new books away.  They were so excited; it was so cute!

(1/3) Sarah and I took our boys to Elevated Sportz to jump and give ourselves 90 minutes of peace to chat.  It mostly worked. From there, we went back to her house and fed the boys all the mac & cheese in the house, while us moms had take-out Mexican. The boys got all the remote-controlled vehicles and made quite the ruckus.  We watched it attempt to snow for a little while.  Sure was beautiful while it lasted.  We eventually went home to host one last Christmas at the house this evening, and had my mom, brother, & sister-in-law over for dinner.  And now, I'm ready to close the books on Christmas last year!

(1/4) The littles scored a snow day, since schools in our area were running 2 hours late. I guess it was snowing like crazy at home, but we had nothing when I got to work.  Womp, womp.