Christmas Adventures!!

This year Christmas was full of traveling, shopping, eating, swimming, sledding and of course seeing family. We headed to Ponoka from Saturday until Christmas morning to hang out with my parents. We did a quick trip to Airdie in there to visit my brother and a day in Red Deer at an awesome swimming pool. We also took Macie sledding for the first time as the weather was gorgeous and there was tons of snow. Macie loved it and of course had no fear. Christmas morning was fun and Macie loved opening presents and also being Santa and handing everybody else there presents. After the excitement of Christmas morning we headed to Calgary to my sisters house where all my family showed up for dinner and visiting, even my Grandma Prive was able to make it. It was such a great time and my sister did such a wonderful job hosting. That night we then headed to Lethbridge and stayed a couple nights at the Holiday Inn where we meet up with Mark's family and did some swimming at the hotel, dinner, and mini golf. I always love visiting Mark's family, it is always too short of a visit, they are so good at always planning something fun to do when we come visit and taking the time to drop everything going on in there busy lives to hang out with us. We then headed back home on Saturday and I have got to brag for a second about how amazing the kids where for the way home. Macie just snuggled into her car seat with Nanie's (her blankets), apple jack, and lily JR (her stuffed puppy) and watched a ton of shows and didn't fuss once, and Wade slept, ate and had one 20 minute cry season. They were little angels. Christmas was definitely a good one this year, it was nice to not have it just be all about the presents, but mostly about visiting family, having fun, singing Christmas Carols, watching Christmas shows and being with our children. I hope we have many more Christmas's like this in the future.

The best pic we could get of Wade in his Sunday Christmas outfit

and the best pic we could get of Macie in her Sunday Christmas Outfit

ready to go sledding

This brave little girl went down all by herself and had smiles on the whole way

finally starting to give us some smiles this week

Many naps were in her carseat

TURNING TWO!!!

 The day started out with being a total nightmare for me, Wade was crying and fussy all day. I literally could not put him down for a second without him losing his mind and even while I held him he was losing his mind. I was on the brink of a nervous breakdown and to make it worse I got my period the day before so I knew I wasn't even going to be able to go swimming with Macie for her birthday which made me so sad. However some how thorough all the insanity and frustration the swimming party turned out to be awesome and even my cake that fell apart ended up being delicious. We ended up doing presents for Macie when Mark came home for lunch as we asked that no presents be brought to her birthday party as she already has so many toys. We mostly just got her books and puzzles and also ended up being bad parents and gave her her big Christmas present that we couldn't fit in the vehicle, to take with us at Christmas, to her as a Birthday Present. Good thing she wouldn't know the difference this year. Then that night we headed to the pool where we invited all of our friends, a good chunk of people showed up. The Isackson's, Kuehn's, Jeanotte's, Fyfe's, Bennett's and the Swendsen's. Then we headed back to our house for cake and ice cream, the Passey's showed up for that part. Even though Mom was stressed to the max, thankfully the Birthday girl had a great day and loved everything about getting spoiled with presents, swimming, friends and cake. I am so glad I kept her party low key and easy this year, I couldn't imagine if I had planned to go all out and my day ended up like it did how I would have done it all. I am really starting to like this outlook on life of making things simple and stress free.

someone is in slide heaven

she knew exactly what to do