Decking the Halls and Our Fun Weekend With Andrea!

After our wonderful Thanksgiving Dinner at my Aunt’s house, Andrea came home with us for the weekend. It was a spontaneous event, but boy was it ever a fun couple of days. She helped us decorate for Christmas and then we spent the next couple of days basking in the magic of the decorations while enjoying movies, fort-building, yummy food, and goodies. And even thought we did not have snow like the picture below on Thanksgiving (and this pic was taken several weeks before and we would not see snow again until Christmas Day) a Christmas-related post is not complete without a snow picture, right?

We are sure BIG fans of this cute girl!

Let the decking of the halls commence! Jayden LOVED it...if you can't tell. ;)

Jayden is always such a good “helper”. ;)

We ended the night with homemade burgers and fries, and watching Home Alone. It was a great Thanksgiving!

 

I LOVE how enchanting Christmas decorations make a home!

Andrea did not bring her glasses since this was such a spur of the moment event, so we made a little set up for her closer to the T.V. so she could see.

Enjoying pizza, chips and dip, and castling building during one of our movie parties!

 

Goodies, goodies, and more goodies! Orange Julius and Homemade Oreos!

Jayden sure loves his sleepovers with Aunt Andrea!

We scored all of these for $28! We are pretty excited to have them in our collection!

 

It was a great weekend! Now onto December! :)

A Mini Family Reunion at Kangaroo Zoo!

The beginning of August we had the opportunity to meet up with some of Ben’s family from out of town at Kangaroo Zoo. If you know our Jayden, you know he was absolutely STOKED about the location of the get together. It was nice to see them all again and the kiddos sure had fun. Even some of the adults joined in on the jumping party.

Ever since we have started having Jayden do jobs around the house for money for treats and toys he wants, he has been obsessed with paying for things. Of course we covered the fun this night, so we let him hand the credit card to the receptionist.

Jayden was SO excited about the Lion King picture on the side of the fridge. We ended the night with a movie party and sleepover downstairs. It is fun to switch up routine sometimes.

It was a great night full of family fun…and Jayden jumping around. That too. Love that little kangaroo of ours.

Sister Double Sleepover!

Anyone who knows me, knows that I have always been social. That being said, being married comes with a lot less social life and a lot more one-on-one time, and as much as I have come to LOVE that, I also love having company over. This is probably the reason we have company over as often as we do, and family are my favorite people to have over (yes, that includes you friends I see as family). Last summer I had a lot of fun-especially with sleepovers with my siblings! This particular time we had Andrea and Lindsay over for two days and two nights. The days and nights were filled with yummy food and treats, movies and goofiness, and we definitely had a BLAST with a Wendy’s picnic lunch and water fun at the splash pad with Grandma and then baking and playing games afterwards.

The next morning, the girl’s watched Jayden while I took Ben to work (ah, the joys of having one car), and I came home to this pile of stuffed animals on Jayden’s high chair. What a bunch of sillies we have in our family!

Jayden LOVED chilling with his aunties!

Jayden can be so sweet at times…

and so violent and crazy at other times.

I am so smitten by this adorable little human.

It was at that point Jayden decided to go play on the swings and the “big toy”…does anyone else call it that? Because that is what I have called them ever since I was little, but I am not really sure it is its proper name.

Jayden would squeal while going down the slide, and then giggle like crazy as he ran around to go down again.

Our little man is ALL boy, I tell ya!

When we got home, we made brownies for the dessert to follow our crescent roll dinner. Grandma really got into cracking those eggs. Letting off a little daily stress I assume. ;)

We ended night #2 with games, brownies, and a walk. Jayden LOVED the card shuffler!

After we took Grandma home, we played the Wii before going to bed.

The next morning, we watched cartoons, cuddled, and played games until my Mom came to pick the girl’s up.

 

They were sure some fun-filled days of sisterly fun!!!