Weekly Weighin

I lost 1.5 pounds this week bringing my total to 73.6 pounds lost. I'm hoping to get through the next few days without gaining it back!

Thanksgiving 2011

We had a great Thanksgiving yesterday! We went to my sister's for lunch, Cole's Mom's for dinner, and Cole's Aunt's house for dessert. The kids were all great considering they went without their naps. It was so nice to spend time with our families. 

To prepare for Thanksgiving I made these super easy acorns

 These low fat pumpkin pies

 and some chicken rollatini from SkinnyTaste.

I tried to snap a few pictures of the kids before we left for the day.

 Grace insisted on wearing the turkey hat she made at school.

 Grace and Emma

 Definitely up to no good!

 Grace and Carter

 Hugs

Some brother/sister love.

 All 3 kids

 Grace and Jacob coloring

 Things we are all thankful for this year.

Elf Sightings

Some elf sightings lately:

Jack pretending to be a super hero, wearing a cape and mask, I threw together at the last minute.

We keep telling Grace that Jack peeks in at her in school. While I was waiting in the pick up line at school I saw him looking in the window, so I offered to give him a ride home. Grace was pretty excited to see him in the car after school. Of course she was even happier that he brought her a special treat.

 Just hanging out in our little village.

 Climbing some candy canes

 Jack brought 34 wrapped Christmas books the other day. Every night before bed Grace gets to pick one book to unwrap and read.

 Grace had a good day so Jack brought her some stamps.

Carter Walks

Enchanted Village

We went to the Enchanted Village last night. This is our 3rd year going (2009, 2010) and we go every year the Thursday before Thanksgiving and we never have to wait in line, in fact we usually have the place to ourselves, it's great.

Grace seeing Auntie Cassie

The babies just taking it all in.

Grace was excited, even though she doesn't look it. I think she just wanted to get started.

 

 Walking back to the Enchanted Village

Once we got in it was impossible to get a good picture of Grace, she was in awe and just kept running from one display to the next.

Trying to catch the falling snow!

Look at that smile!

running

The babies weren't sure what to think of it all.

santa

Trying to catch more snow

"What is this wet stuff!"

Grace was seeing if she was tall enough for the 4D Polar Express, she was!

Cole being  the awesome guy he is, he stayed with the babies while the rest of us went on the 20 minute long ride. I was such a nervous wreck, but Grace loved it! After the Polar Express, Cole's Mom took Grace to the Lite show, while Cole and I put the babies in their pajamas and got some coffee.

We love going to the Enchanted village, it's free to get in, and so much fun. The ride and lite show cost extra but are very reasonable at $6 and $5 a piece. We definitely will be keeping with our tradition and go back next year. A word of wisdom though is to avoid it on the weekends or to close to Christmas, you could end up waiting hours just to get in!

He's back!

As I mentioned before,we have absolutely no respect for the turkey in this house, so this past weekend we decked our halls!

Grace was so happy to have her own tree in her room.

 our tree is gated and only half decorated this year because a certain set of twins love to try to steal ornaments.

 And because he saw our lights from the North Pole Jack is back!

 This year he came with some instant snow, a Rudolph nose, a huge candy cane, and some pop rocks. "He" also covered our kitchen with snow flakes!

 Grace started running to him, once she caught a glimpse. In case you forgot they had quite the sad parting last year.

 Jack is quite the mischievous elf and covered our tree with Gracie's undies the other night.

 Then one night he brought Grace some super healthy cereal from the North Pole, but he couldn't resist it and started eating it.

Grace is so in love with Jack and runs around every morning looking for Jack. I on the other hand love the power that Jack holds "Gracie Jack is watching you. He'll tell Santa if you don't start sharing your toys!"