Letter's to Santa

This year we cut apart the Sears Christmas Catalogue to help us write our letters to Santa. Tanner and Hattie were so excited to cut and paste it all onto their letters. I also made them write something nice to Santa and write and tell him a few things that they had done to be good this year. Then we bundled up and ventured out into the beautiful winter night to drop our letters off in the post box.

Hattie's Ballet

This year I signed Hattie up for Ballet classes. She was so excited from the very beginning. We walked in the store to get her outfit and she was on cloud nine. The store was totally catered to little girls in every way, and it totally sucked us in. Yup, us.

First day, we got dressed and she danced her way into the University and down to her classroom. The moment that outfit goes on, she thinks she is the prima ballerina. We were lucky enough to have Avery in the class with us for the first half. Those two didn't leave each other's side the entire time. Miss Mary would try and get them to slide apart so they could move better, but the moment one girl slid over, the other would slide right on over beside them.

Normally I have to sit outside and wait with Peter during the lessons, but we got special permission to come in and watch her preform all the things she had learned up to this point. It was so cute! All the girls there loved it. They would sing their little songs while doing their moves and just eat up every moment.

An obvious favourite of all the little ballerinas was the balloons they got to run around and play with while Miss Laurie played some classics on the piano. Can't wait to watch again at the end of the year!

Goggly Eyes

Hattie got a sticker book where she could put the stickers onto blank faces. Once we used up all the faces, we were left with a bunch of eyes and eye brows. What better way to use them up then on your own face. Needless to say we had a million laughs!

On to Christmas!

To start off Christmas season we went to the mall to see Santa come with his reindeer.

Cool and a little scary!

Kids loved it!

Good Ol' Halloween!

I love Halloween. This year, however, I did it minimally because I had bad 'morning sickness'. However, we did do the essential traditions!

Like Pumpkin carving - a personal favourite of Tanners. Ha ha, just kidding. He hates it and thinks it's the grossest, meanest thing we could do making him help pull the guts out of the pumpkins.

Hattie, however, relishes in it.

This year we got to take part in Tanner's kindergarten Halloween party!

FUN FUN!

The kids all looked so cute and had such a fun time!

The school has a costume parade that the kindergarten class got to start. They thought they were so cool getting to go in all the big kid classes to show off their costume. Tanner would bust a little move when one of the kids would comment on his costume.

And Hattie took part clipping down the hallways in her princess heals.

Back in the class room the kids got to do a bunch of fun centres - cookie decorating, making a bat pin, colouring ...

and getting wrapped up in tp like a mummy.

Then we went Trick-or-Treating! The weather was perfect again this year.

Peter was actually a really good sport this year. He loved his robot costume. Once he caught on to what was happening he wanted to do it all on his own. He wanted to walk up and down the stair, hold his own bag, and knock on the door if he ever made it there in time.

Tanner and Hattie were great sports. We did a tonne of houses, dropped off Peter, did the other side of the street, dropped off Hattie, and did a few more houses.

There were some pretty intense houses this year. Hattie was thrilled to go to them, but Tanner would sit on the other side of the street a few houses down and wait for us.

We got home, emptied our bags, and picked through our loot!

Who couldn't love Halloween!

Saskatoon fireworks

Just before fall got in full swing, we headed to Saskatoon to visit family and watch their fireworks show. First night we sat with all the people and rocked out to the music while 'ewwing' and 'awing' all the fireworks.

Night number two it was voted that we go to the other side where there were no people and no music (typical Wendorffs) to watch. So, we had our own little dance party while we waited. Hattie was busting some serious moves, so we let her teach us some of them. She was just thrilled.

Then the fireworks started, and we weren't disappointed. What a fun trip!

On the drive home we hit a Major bug storm. The picture doesn't do justice. And, being in the middle of nowhere with no gas stations around, we had to continue our suicide drive into the setting sun. Seriously, we couldn't see anything. After the bugs were gone, I had to stick my head out the window to help with the driving cause Larry couldn't see the rode. We finally got to a gas station forever later and used their almost gone, filthy wash and sponge to clean things up.

Bester - bitter end of summer party

(Yes, I'm posting a summer post in the middle of winter. Have to catch up somehow)

On about the last warm day of the year, Bester's rented this gigantic slide on church property in Magrath. It was so fun! The hill was huge, but I don't think the kids stopped for breath once as they went shooting down it.

Tanner was in heaven because Kason was there. Any thing is better with your best friend.

Hattie played with everyone and had the biggest smile every time she went down. It was so cute to see. And yes, I went down a tonne too with the kids. So fun!

Peter had a love/hate relationship with the slide. He was always excited to go down, but it all depended on the speed and the amount of water that hit his face. And ONLY with mom or dad :)

Ha ha, grandpa and grandma wanted a big train of kids to go down with them. I love Susan's face in this picture. It took a lot of work to get them going, but they got a lot of speed by the end.

Hattie loved going down with grandpa. She hauled him up the hill quite a few times.

Everyone rode it down a couple times, and some of the older guys even did some crazy moves on it (some even shooting off the end), but it was only the little kids that went until the sun was gone. We were all eating supper when I noticed Tanner and Kason were gone with their food untouched. I stepped around the corner and could see their little silhouettes at the top of the hill. They went until their lips were blue and they were shaking cold so bad they could hardly stand, and they still had to be forced to stop.

We were lucky enough to have everyone there, so naturally there had to be a picture with grandpa and grandma and all their grandkids. Fun memories!