The Sawinskis

We had a great weekend filled with family, laughter, hugs, and long naps. As things look thus far, we will indeed have a brown Christmas. Today it was 41. 41 on December 18?!?!

Before heading off to Zannie’s house, Kiera and Sully had their last ice skating lesson.

Kiera pausing for testing. She passed “Snow Plow Sam, level 2″.

A “bamboni” made an appearance shortly after the end of practice. Kiera, Sully, Ella, and Jack

We were able to visit our Bloomer friends. Here are Kiera and Liona before heading outside to play.

Sully and Beau Beau snuggling up!

Kiera proud of the birthday cake she decorated for Papa. “I’m the cake boss!” She was introduced to the Home Alone series. She thought all the booby traps scenes were hilarious. We watched Home Alone 3 on Thursday night. Friday night Tom came home and was so excited to show Kiera that she would now have all three of them to watch. New Christmas tradition? I think so!

Z and T giving a little smooch!

Tickle tickle— Ney, Mark and Sully

Cheese! Wendi, Colie, and Sully. We had a brie, apple potato soup along with stroganoff and roasted veggies for dinner

“Ney ney paint my “no (toe) nails”. Another classic Sully quote of the weekend. “I’ve got a bunch in mine butt!” (A two year olds version of wedgie)

Post gift opening high

We left late Saturday to make it back for the UUCD church in the morning. Here are Kiera and her friend Anna after singing Moonlight for the UUCD Winter Solstice service

The kids and I ran out this morning in a sloppy icey mess to get white eggs to color with crayons and then dip in green and red food coloring. Upon returning home, I went inside as Sully likes to get out of the car by himself. By the time I was going to come out again, he had already shut the door. I clicked the key fab twice and the car then honked as a signal that it was locked. Sully squealed in glee, “It’s horking at me!” He had a puzzled look on his face, so I honked it again. He attempted to say the word “honking” again, paused, and then proceeded to to say “It’s beep horking at me!” He was elated that his car was talking to him.

Gingerbread (I guess it would technically be graham cracker) houses. Step one of three.

Step two of three. (Step three of three to follow)

Lots of pictures of the kids, so I was compelled to take a picture of me. First take. Here I am, one class (tonight) away from completing 40 of my 60 grad school credits. I have 3 classes in the spring, summer off, 3 in the fall, and then internship Spring 2013. Time is flying. I stayed up until 2am putting together a video of our Costa Rica and Honduras trip.

According to Sully:

“Baby Nat, Sully, and Teera”

It looks like wordpress finally fixed a crashing bug so I am now able to do updates from my phone— brilliant! Here is Natalie, Sully, and Kiera after celebrating Nat’s 2nd birthday. So special.