So I have been a bad blogger lately, and well also a bad picture taker too! But regardless of the lack of photos and blogging, we have been up to some fun and interesting activities lately!
First: last week the Christmas train came through Midhurst and we were there! The train stops in cities and towns all over for donations to local food banks. It would have been a lot more fun had the train rolled through in the evening since it adorns lots of lights, but nevertheless Loralai loved seeing the train. She kept saying "I go on the train?", poor thing was a little disappointed that she was not able to ride on it.
There was a little concert that was put on; I do have to admit they could have used a more kid friendly band, and the Santa was a tad quirky, but no one seemed to mind too much.
This is by far my favourite picture in a while, even with the 'I want to watch the train, hurry up and take the picture Mommy' look Loralai is giving me! :)
Second: So I found a recipe to make home made ornaments and got super excited! I ran out and bought some Christmas cookie cutters that night, and the next morning Loralai and I mixed together the dough (flour, salt, and water), and cut out the shapes. I then put them into the oven for 2 hours so that they could harden. That afternoon I got the paint (lol I should have gotten more traditional Christmas colours), and we sat down together to paint. Well below is the only picture that she was actually cooperating and painting the ornaments, instead of trying to eat them! She kept saying :I eat the cookies?" I would have to explain that they were actually ornaments. I even got her a regular cookie thinking that maybe she would stop and just enjoy painting, but nope! I actually had to put the ornaments we made away, and we just painted on paper together instead! lol...well it is still a great activity but obviously a little too soon for Loralai to do, so I will try again next year!
Third: So in our area there has been a really bad snow storm circulating, and up until this morning it had seemed to get all around but fortunately miss us...well that was until this morning when we woke up to this:
So after finding out that I did not have to go to work for the 3rd day in a row (yay lol) because the Base had been shut down, and Daddy shoveling the drive way which took him close to 3 hours. we decided that we needed some Christmas spirit to lift our drowning in snow funk, so we went out and got our Christmas tree!
So although we do like going to the tree farm to participate in all the activities they have, the trees are expensive and out of our price range, so we went to a local nursery to look for a tree instead. In the end we actually went to Rona and purchased our tree since the price was better for the size of tree we wanted, but Loralai had a ball running around in all the trees at the nursery!
So the snow has hardly stopped all day today, so we headed back out there and shoveled once again. Loralai was helping us shovel until she noticed her Dora umbrella! I wish that I could have had an umbrella held over my head to keep the snow from getting me all cold and wet! What a smart cookie I have! :)
There was a little concert that was put on; I do have to admit they could have used a more kid friendly band, and the Santa was a tad quirky, but no one seemed to mind too much.
This is by far my favourite picture in a while, even with the 'I want to watch the train, hurry up and take the picture Mommy' look Loralai is giving me! :)
Second: So I found a recipe to make home made ornaments and got super excited! I ran out and bought some Christmas cookie cutters that night, and the next morning Loralai and I mixed together the dough (flour, salt, and water), and cut out the shapes. I then put them into the oven for 2 hours so that they could harden. That afternoon I got the paint (lol I should have gotten more traditional Christmas colours), and we sat down together to paint. Well below is the only picture that she was actually cooperating and painting the ornaments, instead of trying to eat them! She kept saying :I eat the cookies?" I would have to explain that they were actually ornaments. I even got her a regular cookie thinking that maybe she would stop and just enjoy painting, but nope! I actually had to put the ornaments we made away, and we just painted on paper together instead! lol...well it is still a great activity but obviously a little too soon for Loralai to do, so I will try again next year!
Third: So in our area there has been a really bad snow storm circulating, and up until this morning it had seemed to get all around but fortunately miss us...well that was until this morning when we woke up to this:
So after finding out that I did not have to go to work for the 3rd day in a row (yay lol) because the Base had been shut down, and Daddy shoveling the drive way which took him close to 3 hours. we decided that we needed some Christmas spirit to lift our drowning in snow funk, so we went out and got our Christmas tree!So although we do like going to the tree farm to participate in all the activities they have, the trees are expensive and out of our price range, so we went to a local nursery to look for a tree instead. In the end we actually went to Rona and purchased our tree since the price was better for the size of tree we wanted, but Loralai had a ball running around in all the trees at the nursery!
So the snow has hardly stopped all day today, so we headed back out there and shoveled once again. Loralai was helping us shovel until she noticed her Dora umbrella! I wish that I could have had an umbrella held over my head to keep the snow from getting me all cold and wet! What a smart cookie I have! :)
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