Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Life of Fry

We watched Rio 2 and ate popcorn after visiting Santa
"Is this balancing" - Chloe
Chloe's new favorite outfit. She stuffs everything into everything. We find baby dolls in cupboards, wrapped in blankets and stuffed somewhere and in this picture she had a hat full of micro-machines that she's stuffing into a cupboard. She plays with the micro-machines more than the boys and pretends they are candy's, babies, snacks, etc.
They boys were playing "ninja" and Chloe was playing "dancing"


It's mid-December (the 14th to be exact) and we finally got snow for the kids to play in!
We woke up to snow! The kids were all bundled up and playing in the backyard when Cody and I finally dragged out tired butts out of bed. They got dressed all on their own in their winter clothes but you could tell. The drawers were out of the base and emptied onto their bedroom floor, the back door was open and the dog was in the house BUT they were totally self sufficient!!
Chloe saw me and came running
Love this girl
Coco
Gavin teaching Mason how to play checkers
This is how she rolls:
Holy crocs-check
Sleeveless sundress-check
Hat, gloves and snowpants-check


Throwing snow at mom!
I caught Frankenstein in my closet!
Awesome fluffy hat, you bet
Mason's first eye appt.
He had a slight astigmatism, but other than that he passed with flying colors. After he appt. he wanted to go on his date night. He wanted to play on toys and drink hot chocolate so we went to McDonalds. I ordered 1 small and 1 medium hot cocoa and it was $4.75!! Highway robbery! It was so hot we couldn't even drink it until we got home and then it was terrible to boot, but I still drank the stupid stuff just out of principal because I paid so much for it. 
I had an incredibly rough/exhausting/emotional night after a rough week and Chelsea sent me flowers at work via Pony Express (not really) from WY to cheer me up! She's the absolute best!
My father-in-laws new English bulldog puppy. We use to have one and I want another one, but they are so expensive. I'm secretly hoping he decides he doesn't want this one and give him to me!


Chloe built a farm
Gavin made this and had Cody send me a picture


Tidbits:
-All 3 of my kids have now declared their hatred towards mushrooms : (

- "I will just hug it and not eat it" - Chloe talking about Twinkies

-Mason calls elevators "alligators"

-Chloe cut a big chunk out of Mason's hair right in the front and then a hole in her pants and tried to blame it on Gavin because he left the scissors out and then on Mason because he let her do it. At least try and blame daddy who was left in charge and suppose to be watching you ; )

-Chloe was walking around the house for a few days saying, "Credit or debit". Maybe she's been doing a little too much shopping!

-Chloe's beta-fish that she named "Food" died on the 21st. We had a funeral and flushed him down the toilet

-Gavin was watching a My Little Pony movie and I when I asked him about it he said, "It's like rock and roll, I love it!"


Jack the Elf


My kids absolutely love Jack and since I print my blog into a "Family Yearbook" every year I couldn't leave him out. This is what he did while he was here this year:
 
He showed up with the sniffles after a long trip from the North Pole, but made sure the kids knew how excited he was to be back
He made lots of paper airplanes
Gavin was so excited. It has been his thing to do with the church program and papers he brings home from school
Jack hung snowflakes from the ceiling over our dining room table but got tangled up in one of the lines...silly elf. Gavin said, "I wondered if he jumped and got stuck or was he just showing off?" Then after Cody took him down Chloe said, "Oh now are you OK? " (to Jack and then to Cody) "Oh good he's fine dad. He's OK right dad?"
Stuck in Santa's milk cup
The boys conversations about Jacks predicament was pretty funny.
Pinned to the bulletin board
Stuck on the portal and being help captive by Gavin's Skylander's
Wearing mommy's earrings
He added himself to our families measuring board
Pooping peppermints
 
Hiding in the lamp shade
HE WRAPPED PRESENTS!!!
The kids loved this one! Gavin came downstairs and said, "Mom! You need to come see what Jack did. He did a really big job!" After I saw it Gavin said, "I rearranged the presents a little because they looked dull."  Dull? Really? I'm not sure he's really 7!
Napping in Chloe's doll bed
Jack surprised the kids with "Bubble gum milk"
(My kids think that egg nog tastes like bubble gum and they love it)
Hiding on the doorbell
Reading Christmas stories
The kids were have been good so he brought them some cotton candy
Fishing
He decorated the tree (aka stocking hanger)


 Gavin found a really cute reindeer at the store when we were Christmas shopping and he wanted to buy it for Jack and I'm a sucker for a cute blue eyed boy who was only thinking of others so we bought it and Gavin left him this note:
Dear Jack
We left this gift for you. I hope you like it. Merry Christmas.
From; the Frys
 
Jack responded with this:

 Then the two of them had a lot of fun together and did this:
And were so tired they had to rest



The next night they played a game of checkers


The next night they left a trail of candy from the boys room,
down the hall,
through the dining room and kitchen,
down the stairs
through the family room and were found with a pile of candy on the couch.

They left the kids a message on the geoboard
A friendly reminder out of lego's
They wrapped one of the kitchen chairs up and then got into a bag of Hershey kisses
Jingle helped himself to some
On Christmas Eve they went home with Santa but they left the kids a goodbye note and some candy canes.