Back to School

The kids are headed back to school today, so I thought I would just throw some pictures up to recap our winter adventures.  We did try to make the most of it and in my mind, we succeeded.

Christmas lights in Draper Park, games and puzzles with Grandma Rexine, and low gas prices! $1.87 now.

Our Christmas morning surprise was hidden upstairs in our room (our new dog) while Mat told the kids he was working on a birdhouse in the garage (i.e. dog house)

While he was working on said "birdhouse" I was working with these guys to sneak in his long awaited motorcycle into the lab. I told them it was okay to lie a little so Mat could be absolutely thrills and squeals when he stumbled upon it.

I was able to catch Mat on tape discovering the motorcycle.It was perfect because my brother was going to borrow a cooler and so I started rolling the camera because I knew he was going to walk right into happiness.

Before and after

Christmas morning we woke up to the whitest snow and delightfulness.

And then the kids got the surprise of their life! Master Foo appeared and he has changed their lives forever.

Slow Mo of Master Foo doing his first magic trick by appearing right out of the FurReal Friends box

He's been very scrumptious ever since and we have to take time outs because the kids want to hold him all the time.

His eyes are hard to catch because he is so dark around the face, but he's cute when you can catch them.

We wrapped up with a lovely Christmas dinner of crab legs and roast.  It was nice to have my family together, Bob, Andrea, Brian, Casey, and my mom. Goldilocks says just right.