.The first half of December

Welcome to our December of last year! We took the family to the Muttart Conservatory (indoor botanical gardens) for our Christmas photo shoot this year. It was so much fun and we were so lucky to get some great shots of these kids when there was so much stuff around for them to explore. Blessings

  

Alice has a great love of drawing and painting…I am so glad because this is something that Ames hasn't shown much interest in yet ↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓ These siblings love each other so much//We found Ames's old binki and he wanted to try it out again ↓↓↓

 

My poor children have had to learn that sometimes the air in Canada gets so cold your face hurts…then I make them smile for a picture in it ↓↓↓

 

Alice loves high heels and walks like a pro in them ↓↓↓

Ames writing a letter to Santa ↓↓↓

↓↓↓ Our ward Christmas pajama party with Santa! Both kids were happy and didn't shed a tear on Santa's lap (dangit)//Ames is getting better and better at playing xbox…(can you hear my eyes rolling from there?) ↓↓↓

 

We conjured up a storm with all of our Christmas baking this year, it was pretty insane… We were forced to give away lots of our overflowing goodies to friends! haha ↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓ Something about Christmas time makes me want to do puzzles//We each had our own advent calendar this year. Chocolate is important ↓↓↓

 

And now I present to you… our 2016 Christmas ornament:

 

Officially we chose the penguin… but honestly! How can anyone expect me to choose just ONE new ornament a year?? I got three.

The rest of December coming soon!

.All of it, November

Well, wow. Looks like not much happened in November around here? Makes sense tho, seeings how that was Air's first month back to work full-time in two years. We had a lot of adjusting to do.

We got some awesome 1-year passes for all Edmonton rec centers and attractions (because of said disability insurance) so we have definitely been making use of those! We love swimming at the pools and going to the indoor playgrounds ↓↓↓

↓↓↓ Alice continues her habit of falling asleep while eating dinner.

↓↓↓My children are most adorable in their church clothes//Ames walked directly into some wood sticking out of a shelf at Lowes and fell on his back on the cement floor…I get the feeling that we are lucky his injuries weren't worse than a little scratch on his cheek ↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓Yes, another week at church//and another ↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓ I invited all my friends over for girls night when the new season of Gilmore Girls came out on Netflix. I was so excited that there were actually quite a few fans of the show! Also they brought the best snacks in honor of Rory and Lorelei. I need to do this more often!

↓↓↓ Ames gave his first talk in primary and did awesome! We were so shocked and impressed that he actually went through with it



↓↓↓ And one more video of Alice sleeping at dinner to call it even

Ok, so the honest BEST part of the entire month of November 2016 was the weekend trip that we made to Calgary to make our children Citizens of the United States of America at the embassy there!!! I am so happy to be a dual-citizen, and even happier to know that my children are dual-citizens of these two great countries too.

I didn't get a photo at the embassy (duh me), but we went to see Santa at the big mall there afterwards ↓↓↓

  

Then we stayed with our friends, the Harkers, that night and seriously just partied all night with those guys.

And that pretty much sums up that month!