Christmas with the England Crew

Preparing for Santa! Sprinkling Reindeer food

Oh yes, we are getting excited

 

VERY EXCITED!!!

Stockings UP!

STORY TIME!!!

Josh and Sophie taking turns reading us all 'Twas the Night Before Christmas! Such good readers!!

SANTA CAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trying to NOT look tooooo excited to get a real SKATEBOARD from Santa!!

Awesome!

 

OMG... COOL! Wait til you see me making my Robotbug!

 

YEAH!!  We've all played this many times since!

 

So much fun!!

 

YES!!! Star Wars Lego! This was assembled in no time FLAT!

 

ME! In a BOOK?!?! How cool!

 

Playing Charades on Christmas Day

In case you are wondering, the kids decided to play "Olympics" and were having swimming competitions in the basement before we started charades!  hahahaha!

 

Hannah is a CAT, we thought it was a squirrel

 

Everyone won prizes, Josh picked out the boys - handcuffs!

 

Ballerina?

 

??????

If I can figure out how to load a video, I will! This was hilarious! Blake was an OTTER!

Good times

 

Soda Can Robug, it's cool! It buzzes all over!

Having Fun with Cousins

 

Giving Barbie Ponies a bath

Playing with Straws, we are ASTRONAUTS!

Skating!!! 

Hannah's first time! Standing!

 

Mommy skating backwards to help keep me up!

 

 

Josh skates too fast to catch with the camera, even backwards!

 

Sophie in a MAGIC SHOW in old Montreal

 

After skating Supper in Old Montreal... you order Please!  Ton commande s'il vous plait!  POUTINE!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Getting Ready for Christmas

Putting up the tree! At Last! I made them wait until Nov 30th! They'd been begging since Nov 1st!!





What a picture! So pretty :-)


Waiting for SANTA CLAUS! Our little town's Christmas Parade, they hold it in early evening just after sundown, so the lights on the floats look all magical! I think its a French-Canadian tradition.

Yes, it's a little parade, but the kids love it!

scrambling for candy canes! Oh my - Looks more dangerous that it is! The cars / floats are stopped when they through the candy!


Hurry Up Santa!!
He's HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Random Photos

some random photos first! Making sock puppets (thank you Aunt Krystine and Uncle Robert!)




Hannah's hair is getting LONG now! I can FINALLY french braid!!! I love it and so does she!!

Josh in our town's Remembrance Day Parade for Cubs

Trick or Treat!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Here are some photos of us getting ready for the Big DAY! Notice the spoooky house!


Hannah just thought the whole processes was so interesting. She couldn't wait to see inside the pumpkin, she was so curious. Well, as soon as we opened it up, she said, "Hey! I know this!! My China Mama and Baba ate this!" I said, "Oh, did they cook and eat the seeds?" (We'd eaten roasted melon seeds at restaurants in China). NOPE she said. I asked what they did with the seeds? "Put them in the garbage and cook the inside and eat it!"

We also made a SPOOKY Graveyard - Josh's idea!

Halloween Night! BOO! Very scary Josh!

INCREDIBLE HANNAH!

Her first house. Hannah was excited and nervous but had her friend Blake right beside her so she was fine. She ran right up, knocked loudly and said even louder : TRICK OR TREAT! When she got her candy, she said also very loudly: THANK YOU! and came running over to show me her candy. What a great holiday eh?!