Happy Valentine's Day

This is the bounty of valentines that Finn and Sawyer will pass out today. Last year we made some yummy heart cookies. But this year we decided to go sugar free. Finn is passing out lip shaped noisemakers and Sawyer is passing out bouncy balls (his favorite). I borrowed the idea for the bouncy balls here. The lips were all me and say "Pucker Up. It's Valentine's Day." or "Read my lips. Have a happy Valentine's Day."

Jingle All the Way. Hey.

I don't think we have any Michael Buble's in our future. But they sure have a lot of spirit!

Story time with Santa and a little something extra

On Saturday, we took the boys for Story Time with Santa at St. Martin's. The boys were really excited, especially Finn. It was a well organized event with coloring, cookies, projects, photo ops with Santa and Santa reading stories for the kids.

Finn & Santa

Sawyer did not want to go up to Santa. In fact, Santa apparently scared the vomit right out of him, as was evidenced just a couple of minutes later. Luckily, he didn't get Santa. Hopefully that's not an automatic ticket to the naughty list.

Oh Christmas Tree

You say you wanted to see the finished product? Wish granted.



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Christmas Tree Hunt 2011

Last weekend we headed up to the Santa Cruz mountains to partake in our holiday tradition of cutting down our Christmas tree. We got a big one this year- about 9 feet. That's right.

Finn picked out the tree this year. Nice work!

Finn is giving it his all trying to cut this tree with the dull saw they give you.

Jason and Sawyer are supervising.

Maybe next year Sawyer will be ready to be the sawyer. Heehee.

Looking good.

Even Momma gets a turn.

Scout is thoroughly unimpressed with the whole thing. But there were lots of different things to occupy her nose so that made her happy.

Here's the whole Papier Clan with our trees.

Thanksgiving cookies

I love that my 4 year old has the creative bug. We spent a couple of hours at the mall to kill some time on a rainy day. Finn was excited about the Christmas decorations. And he wouldn't let me leave Williams Sonoma without some Thanksgiving cookie cutters. I offered to get him 2. He demanded 4. We settled on 3.

So tonight we made some yummy cookies with the help of Finn's buddies Jack & Norah. Sawyer helped too. Mainly in the eating department. The kids had a blast decorating the pumpkins, acorns and turkeys. The heads on the turkeys kept getting cut off. Just like the real thing.

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Halloween 2011- The Final Chapter

I had to post a final Halloween post because despite some screaming (me), kicking (Sawyer) and crying (Jason) we finally got Sawyer into his monkey costume. He was immediately content. Go figure.

Banana, check. Lollipop, check.

The only thing scarier then the huge monster in front of the house is the devil dog inside! Check out those glowing eyes.

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