Happy Birthday Chris--Yay Snow!

Friday was Chris' Birthday, so Mary and I decided to make him a cake. Mary was super excited about it. She even told her teachers that we were making her daddy a cake. I think they were a little baffled because they asked me about it. I'm like, yeah I know he's in heaven, but we are still making him a cake and celebrating his birthday. We made chocolate because that's what Chris would have wanted and what Mary would want. Mary took care of the sprinkles--they were kind of all piled on the center of the cake. Mary wanted Jackson to come over to have cake with her, so Rachel, Jackson, Luke, and Amy joined us for cake. So here is Mary with her daddy's cake (Jackson and I don't like frosting so I left some off). It was delicious!

I was thinking back on his birthdays. The first three years of our marriage, the Lord of the Rings movies came out each year the week of Chris' birthday. So it sort of became a tradition that we would go to the movies for his birthday. The last year we were together for his birthday was 2005 and we went to King Kong with Skyler and Andrea also. Even though it was a good movie I fell asleep some way through it for a bit. I later found out I was pregnant. No wonder I fell asleep haha. The next year Chris was in Iraq.

It seems fitting then that Mary and I went to see The Princess and the Frog on Saturday for little Louise's birthday. It was a very cute movie and now Mary says, "remember the two shows? The Princess and the Frog show and the Christmas Patacular show." Chris and I always loved going to the movies and we went to a lot--I know because I still have almost all of our ticket stubs! I think we would have fun taking Mary together. Who knows he was probably sitting next to us in the theater.




Saturday morning it started snowing and I'm not sure not sure when it stopped. Sometime Sunday morning. When Mary looked out the window on Sunday morning she said, "It's so magical mom!" Of course Mary and Max wanted to go out and play.




Poor Mary. The snow was so deep she could hardly walk. But she had lots of fun. Max pranced around the back yard. He was pretty excited. He always makes himself a little nest in the snow and lays in it.

Today after school she was ready for another round in the snow. I didn't go out with her because it was cold! She was super cute. Just walking around in the snow and singing to herself.

Pictures of Santa's Breakfast!

Good Morning! My friend Rayna has sent me some photos from yesterday's breakfast with Santa. These pictures are way way better than the one I posted.

She DId It!

Okay so I haven't blogged in almost a whole year! I need to get back in the groove and get blogging! Well so today Mary finally sat on Santa's lap! She has been frightened of Santa (as most children are) since--well since I tried to put her on his lap when she was three months old. This year Mary "gets" the whole Christmas thing. Last year she was excited about decorating the tree and opening presents for a little while, but she had no concept of time and didn't really understand. I think this year she has learned a lot more about Christmas at her pre-school and from her friends there. She helped decorate the tree. It's so cute because all the non-breakable ornaments are all clumped together on the bottom half of the tree. My mom, Joe, Skyler and Christine, and Dustin were all here over Thanksgiving. We took Mary to see the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular. I was a little unsure that Mary would be able to sit for ninety minutes, but I think she was in awe and loved it! We went to a later show so I couldn't tell if she was tired or just super enthralled by it. However almost every day since we went she says, "Remember the patacular show?" It's so cute!

I have been trying to get Mary excited about sitting on Santa's lap. She told me she wants Santa to bring her a pink phone (where she came up with that, I have no idea). So I told her that she has to tell Santa what she wants. How else will he know that she wants a pink phone. So she has been psyching herself up all week. She says to me, "I am not gonna be scared of Santa" and "I am not gonna be shy anymore with Santa." Well this morning we joined the Eyerman's and the Joyce's for breakfast with Santa at the Little Silver Fire Hall. When Santa came in, Mary did shrink back a little and wanted me to hold her, especially the closer we got to Santa. Little Louise took Mary by the hand and took her up to see Santa. Louise helped Mary to be brave to see Santa. Santa asked Mary what she wanted for Christmas and Mary told him quietly a pink phone. Then she sat on his lap for the picture and for a candy cane. Here's the picture. It's not the best, but I think she was nervous. She also just drank a glass of red punch and so she has a lovely red mustache.