Aidan - Canon

Star of the show

Monday night we got dressed up and went to Canon and Quinn's Christmas program. We just got our FLIP so I admit the video is horrible (plus I was laughing so hard I couldn't keep it still) We bought the school's video so hopefully it will turn out better and I will share that too.

So the classes come out and Canon is on the left of the stage the second boy in on the front row (in stripes). When they practiced there was no microphone, but the night of the concert there was. Canon got about halfway through the first song and thought he would bless the audience with a solo. The entire place was laughing and Todd and I were crying we were laughing so hard. We're not sure where he gets his outgoing personality, but he is afraid of nothing! He kept singing into the microphone, until his beloved teacher Miss Charlene told him not to. After that he kept eyeing it, he really wanted to, but knew he wasn't supposed to. He cracked us up.

Hopefully the other video shows it better but for now enjoy!

St. Jude Marathon

First of all big THANK YOUS to everyone who donated to Team Caroline. St. Jude raised over 1.5 million dollars and you guys helped get to that goal! Lots of kiddos and their families benefit from that money, you are the real HEROES!

Second, huge THANK YOU to Todd! He is so good to let me be a crazy woman and run for hours on end during all the training and then to load up 3 kiddos at 5:30 am to get me downtown so I don't have to park. Then he got to travel around downtown and try to see me a couple of times all while hauling 3 cold kiddos around. You are the BEST!

I had a really fun race, although it was COLD, it was a blast. I ran with Ed Newton. We have taken his family's pictures for the past 3 years and it was great to run with him. If you look at his website, you'll see Todd's handy work! I ran a 3:24:38, my best time and was the 24th woman to finish. It was fun and now I am looking forward to fattening up for the holidays :-)

My Aidan waiting for his mommy...his sign said "GO TARA!"

My date with the kiddos.....

Todd works so hard. Too hard sometimes! We appreciate all he does, and we miss him when he's busy. The other night he got off work and went home to have a meeting with a bride. I had to go downtown to pick up my marathon packet and so the kids and I decided to have a date night. We went to the expo and walked around, then we went to the Pink Palace and saw Santa vs. The Snowman in the Imax theater. I was really expecting Quinn to not last, she is not a tv kid, but she sat through the whole movie and did fantastic. We still had a little time to waste so we went to Chik-fil-A and had dinner and of course ice cream! Quinn was extra excited about the ice cream part and started making the funniest face. She was HAPP-Y! (and yes at the end of the video if you listen carefully you hear Aidan say, "putting it on the blog?" TOO FUNNY!)

Donuts

3 kids and grocery shopping just don't always go together. Sometimes there is bribery involved. Ok, there is ALWAYS bribery involved. This time I got a pack of donuts and told them if they were good in the store they could have one in the car. I turned my back to order some turkey at the deli and turned back around to this....

Yes, she has a WHOLE donut in her mouth!

Downtown

Another adventure while the family was all here. We loaded up and went downtown to walk around. We went into an old train station and got to set up the camera to take a few family pictures. Then Canon and Grace and Todd rode the trolley while we went home to watch some football. We love and miss you guys! Thanks for visiting us!

Putt putt

After we had filled our tummies with Thanksgiving lunch we decided we wanted to go DO something. We ended up playing putt putt, in the cold, but we had so much fun. There were many hole-in-ones, and we even got a few smiles out of Uncle Bryce :-) The kids had a great time, maybe a new Thanksgiving tradition! The boys were there, they were so busy playing, I guess I didn't get any pictures of them...maybe next time!

Thanksgiving...at our house!

This was our first official hosting of a holiday and we had a blast. Mymom and Aunt Grace, Aunt Erica, and Uncle Bryce flew up to enjoy Thanksgiving Fleming style. We weren't really sure what that meant, but we figured it out and had a great time spending time with everyone. It was a quiet, spend time around the house playing kind of day...but those are the best kinds of days in this busy world we live in.