New Years

Skating, fireworks, music and best of all family :) A most fantastical evening!

Getting Ready For the Big Guy

We've had a busy day here, preparing for the Big Guy :) Mr. Monkey is home now and we are now complete :) So below are just a couple things we did today!

Tracking Santa - Norad is great!!

Helping mom make a yummy treat for some extended family for Christmas!

Putting out the Reindeer Food!!

Looking forward to the morning!! Merry Christmas to you all :)

Christmas Gifts

This year I've tried to make a good portion of the gifts we'll be giving to family :) I've done pretty well all in all. Using the directions from Carol's blog, You're Not Lost You're Here we did these pretty ornaments for Jacobs brothers and sisters. Each has a cartoon character they like and their name:


I also do up these little wash clothe and soap sets for family as well :)


I will post the best thing I made this year after Christmas as I don't want any family seeing just yet :) It turned out sooooo well, can't wait to share!

Mom can you homeschool my friend...

Yup the Mr. Monkey asked me that today when our little neighbour came over. Not because Jacob is bored or anything (I think LOL) but because his friend hates school. He said he's not doing well and hates all the tests. He said he's bored a lot and would rather be out with us and learning like Jacob does.

I wish I could...grab up all the ones that don't do well in that environment. Not everyone has a hard time in school, many enjoy it... But for those who need things a little differently and don't have the choice, those are the ones I want to take home with me :)

Holidays....ahhhhh

We are now off for the Christmas break and have been having fun together indoors and out! We decided we would brave the cold on Monday and take advantage of the snow outdoors. It was FREEZING!! Coming back in we did some popcorn stringing, much of it never got on the string though LOL And we also did a bunch of baking and have got our things all set for the Cookie Swap for the Christmas Party :) We are all looking forward to it!

On Vacation!!

I decided this week would be the start to our Christmas vacation :) We've had a very focused for half, we need a BREAK!

So hoping to take lots of pictures of the fun and activities we are doing over the next few weeks :)


YAHOOOOO!

Snow Globe and Santa's Furry Helper

Little Miss will miss the snow globes at the potluck on Friday so we made hers today :) Turned out well, but the jar is leaking a wee bit :( I'll have to get something else for Mr. Monkey LOL Our home school friends have the details on how to put this all together at You're Not Lost, You're Here!

Santa's Furry Helper is not liking his costume LOL The hat especially!

My foot must appear in all dog photos, too big to get out of the way ;-P

Fun Days of Winter!

We've been enjoying the huge dumping of snow we got over the last few days! We met up with some homeschooling friends to do some tobogganing.


We also decorated our ginger bread house as well. They eat more than they decorate but they look forward to it each year LOL We took the below picture rather quickly as the roof was sliding off!! We read the directions afterwards that mentioned how to avoid that LOL Maybe next year :)


More to come this week as we have a Christmas Party and a Potluck :)

Baking with the Girl

We bake A LOT here! We especially love banana chocolate chip muffins! Little Miss and I decided we needed to whip up a batch yesterday!

Counting out her chocolate chips to eat LOL

Why??? They always seem to do a least one goofy picture LOL

Hockey Tournament

Just a few pictures from the All-Star hockey tournament this weekend. The boys played very well and were the 'B' Champions, losing only one game. Mr Monkey is in the white helmet :)

About to tackle to goalie after the win :)

Borax Crystals

We had some fun last week making very cool crystals, here is how it was done. It was soooo easy and the results were outstanding. We boiled borax in a pot, shaped the pipe cleaners however they wanted, dangled them in a mason jar, poured the liquid in and let them sit. Within hours we could see the crystals forming and they got BIG. Not brittle at all, a very cool experiment!

Making some crazy designs

Dangling and ready for the mixture

The soak

Drying off