A perfect day for putting up a Christmas tree...

I woke up this morning and got the babies out of bed and we came to the living room, like I do every morning, I opened up the curtains and to my surprise there was about 2 inches of snow on the ground! I had no idea it was even supposed to snow. Excitedly I yelled for the babies to come to the window and told them what it was. Asher's favorite word to say when he sees something he thinks is cool is "WOW", so that is what he said, followed by "I touch it"? To which mommy replied, not right now, it's too cold! Lilly ran around the house saying "it's snowing"! It was really cute and I can't wait to take them out this winter to actually play in it.

After about a 3 hour nap this afternoon for mommy and babies (daddy couldn't fall asleep) we woke up, popped some popcorn and found "The Santa Claus" on TV. We watched that for awhile and then got the tree out along with what little decorations we have. As we were taking everything out of the bins Brad and I realized that we might need to invest in some new Christmas items as well as a tree for next year. We have had most of our Christmas stuff for about 10 years, although we do buy one new ornament for the tree every year. I love getting out the ornaments and remembering what all we have. Some of our ornaments are really unique and i love how different our tree looks because of that. Some of my favorite ones are some that Brad's grandma made years ago and his mom found them and thought we might like to have them. The babies "helped" hang some of the ornaments on the tree while mommy went behind them and fixed them a little. Whenever Lilly would get one to actually stay on the tree she would proclaim "I did it!" We hadn't put up a tree in two years, 1st time because I was about ready to pop with twins and the 2nd time because we were packing for the move to IN, so I was very excited to put a tree up this year and share that with the babies. I was so thrilled after we got done that I got a little carried away with taking pictures, seriously, I took like 100 pictures! I went thru them and although it was hard, I picked out a few I really liked....

Flash Back...

A couple of weekends ago I went to the movies with a couple of friends of mine. Now I will get to what we went to see later....We went to The Diana Theater in Tipton, IN, a small town theater that shows 1 movie at a time. I grew up going to the movies at this place, that was just the thing to do (well one of the only things!) during my middle school/early high school years. After the move it seemed like every teenager in town would walk the block to the local pizza place called "Pizza Shack". I really love these memories, after all we did it almost every single weekend especially after the roller skating rink closed :( So anyway, a couple of weekends ago me and some friends decided to go see the new High School Musical 3 movie. Yes, you read that right! I'm not (too) ashamed to admit that I love these movies, mainly because it's a musical and who doesn't love musicals, and partly because it's cheesy and I love cheesy stuff like that! Now I haven't been to this theater in a good 17 to 18 years. I walked in and I was back in 8th grade. Looking around in amazement, everything looked just like it did all those years ago and I loved that. The big kicker was that when I got up to the little booth that has always been there, to pay, it was the same ole guy still taking the money. When I saw this I let out a big "NO WAY!" and my friend knew exactly what I was talking about and she started laughing. She has been there several times in her adult life, now taking her kids. I really couldn't believe that the theater had survived all those years, with me being away for so long I guess I had just assumed it would close eventually. but oh no, it's still going strong! My friend even said there is sometimes a line outside depending on the movie. Pizza Shack hasn't changed much either, I still say they have the best salads I have ever had and I missed them when I lived in TN. I'm glad I can get one now whenever the mood strikes me. There is something addictive about them even my husband thinks so now. So there is my little trip down memory lane, one that I am excited to visit again!

First Trick or Treating Experience...

Well this year was the babies first year to go trick or treating and it was the cutest thing ever! We started out the evening at about 4:30pm for a cookout in my sisters neighborhood in Cicero. We got together with 3 or four other families for chili, potato soup, hot dogs on the grill and a bunch of other yummy stuff! After we all filled out bellies we put all the kids in their costumes to get ready for a hayride around the neighborhood. It couldn't have been a more perfect night, the weather was incredible, the babies did so good walking up to each house saying "happy Halloween"! and sometimes they remembered to say thank you as well, with a little help from mommy. They caught on very quickly to why we were walking up to all these houses and that the big plastic orange pumpkin they were carrying was for holding candy. I remember looking over at Lilly several times during the hayride with a sucker in each hand, taking turns licking both of them. After the hayride and trick or treating we headed back to Kendra's (sisters neighbor) to eat more and have birthday cake for Shelly's birthday. We all changed the kids into pj's and let them run around and come off their sugar highs and headed home after the fun night! Here are some pics from from our fun night, the costumes couldn't have been more perfect for Lilly and Asher...