Daddy's vacation started out with a surprise lunch out on his last day of work before an almost two week vacation! We went to an awesome sandwich place right by his work. Even Ashley thought the sandwich was delicious! Such big bites!
That evening we were invited to two parties so we did our best to attend each one. The first one kids were invited to so we all headed over to Katie and Luke's house. Their two daughters are similar in age to our kids so we always have fun when we get together. Fun fact - Luke's parents and Brian's parents are good friends. And both of their names are John and Pauline! Ashley looked all cute in one of her cousin's old dresses! Leopard print is in at any age!
When we got home from that party, the kids got ready for bed and we waited for the babysitter (Mrs. Webb, Trevor's preschool teaching assistant). He passed the time by doing floor angels in his new Spiderman jammies.
We had a really great time at party number two. It was right across the street at our friend's Troy and Lisa's house (yes, Gabriella's house). How fun to be able to meet some of their friends and our neighbors and then just walk home? There were just 12 of us and boy do they know how to throw quite the party with a lot of delicious food, wonderful drinks and fun people! We had a really good time!
Other highlights from Daddy's time at home was getting out Trevor's old truck that he learned to walk behind. Ashley is doing much better putting weight on her feet and cruising the furniture and walking behind things or with your fingers (must have both though, one finger will not suffice). However, riding the vehicles is pretty fun too!
As is pushing Trevor around!
Ashley isn't too fond of being contained somewhere. Please let me out! Please!
Daddy got in lots of cuddles with his kiddos during his time off. It was nice to see :)
Daddy and Trevor even took a swim in the little pool!
We went on an adventure walk with Troy, Lisa and Gabriella to check out all of the holiday lights around our community.
We also went to the Princess hotel with our friends Sharon, Tanner, Connor and Kennedy to check out their holiday light display. It was cold and rainy but we still had a fun time.
This was as good as it was going to get of the four kids together. Love how Connor is helping to make sure Ashley is looking at the camera! He just adores her!
Daddy did a great job re-tiling the bathroom where we had some water damage due to the toilet being installed incorrectly. We are thankful he is so handy and determined to make it look just right!
Daddy and Trevor continued with the tradition of making a gingerbread house.
And then that evening we visited the gingerbread houses at the JW Marriott just down the road. Last year they had a whole city of little gingerbread houses but this year they had a handful of life-size houses!
Trevor was bummed that they didn't have their 'Letters to Santa' area with complimentary candy canes. The boy is certainly enjoying this holiday season full of candy canes.
Ashley on the other hand is into just about any food that she can hoard in her hands and cheeks! She gets so protective of her food!
She's got a death grip on the bag while watching out of the corner of her eye...
Seriously Ashley, don't worry! Nobody wants your veggie straws! My goodness! Not to mention, we have lots of them!
We really had a nice time having Daddy home - lots of other individual blog posts of other happenings like Christmas with each of our parents - but we wanted to remember some of the other family things we did during his time off too. It was nice too for Daddy to have a glimpse into our daily routines and it must be noted somewhere that after two days Daddy said "I don't know how you do this every day!" Well Sara feels pretty lucky to spend every day with the kiddos but she understands what he means. It isn't for everybody. But it's moments like this that make it all worth it...(and could those darn i-teeth pop through so we can get some rest?? Thank you ;-))
