Approaching Christmas Chaos?

The day before Buggy arrived we took in our last corporate Christmas party.  PHEWF!
This one involved: sugar, screaming kids, chaos, more sugar, Santa, more chaos, an impressive spread of snacks, and a few games.
No overload on presents or take home stuff though.  I repeat… PHEWF!

Someone had a wee bit of fun.
Ok, we all did.
We have a serious bouncy castle addict on our hands.  Who doesn't love being shot down a slide like a torpedo?!
We've had such a fun month (or two) preparing for the holidays with just Andrew.
We started (ridiculously) early to embrace it all with the 3 year old knowing full well baby's arrival would slow us down.
The plan was brilliant.  And we nailed the execution. YEAH US!
Turns out, the celebration just got better and more fun with two… no really, it did.
(may have something to do with the fact that I was sleeping ZERO HOURS before baby and now I can actually sleep).

I can't lie though, we are running out of steam as the big day approaches.
NOT to be mistaken for running out of spirit.
The real challenge is that I'm also running out of creative ideas on where to put TIMMY, our Elf on the Shelf.

We've had time in Fernie, time at home and time with Santa.
Kinda feel like the gifts have already been handed out in our world.
SIGH!

As a side note, I'm secretly looking forward to taking our crispy dry tree down and clearing out clutter.  But that is a secret - shhhhh.  I must always embrace my inner Grinch.  Christmas makes a mess!


Next year we will take it to the next level with two kiddos.  SO AFRAID!  Taking tips starting Boxing Day 2013.


T minus 3 sleeps people!
3 sleeps!!!

Daddy's Company Kiddo Christmas Party Part 2!

Face Paints.

Bouncy Castles.

Sugar.

Crafts.

Magicians.

Gifts.

Games.

Car races.

More Sugar.

Balloons.

And a visit from Mr. You Know Who himself! (who by the way wasn't as scary as my pictures show)

This year was a much bigger success.

Some good things that come with age right?

(that is our shy boy standing front and centre!  we are certain he is trying to analyze the tricks.)

All in all a pretty fantastic day.
I came home and slept for 2 hours….
By myself…
In my own bed…
in peace!

But we still wait for Buggy.
I thought for sure yesterday things would happen with all the activity.  NOPE!





#thankfulnovember

Corporate Christmas BOO.

Last weekend we hit up Daddy's Corporate Kids Christmas party.
It was a very generous display of sparkles, flashy lights, bouncy castles and crying overtired kids of all ages dropping like flies.  Ok it wasn't that bad but on our way out to make it home before naps snuck up, we heard cries of sugar overload and tantrums galore.  Borderline funny.  No, seriously funny. Come on!

Anyway.... the big stand by Santa - be happy - get your damned picture taken thing didn't go over well.
I had a hunch this was THAT year.

Even the super cute smiling kid elf creeped out Beanie...

The ridiculously large tables overflowing with gifts didn't really impress him.  Not gonna lie.  I'm kinda happy that he could care less about gifts and nearly lost his mind over bouncy castles and silly cars.  The amount of gifts on these table was overwhelming to my eyes.  Children in many nations could only dream.  Generous - certainly.  Overboard - HELL YES... oh here comes Mamma Grinch!

Looks like our boy likes other things this year.  We are cool with that!

There will be plenty of years ahead for gift overload.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

On a happy note, my sweet niece Aysha thought Santa was pretty wonderful!  Her Mamma works with Daddy.  Aysha was thrilled in her own quiet way.

 #thankfulnovember

I am so thankful for these generous opportunities our work provides for our children.  We are so very fortunate to live in the land of plenty.  WOW!