slow slow little blogger am i...

seriously - i have no idea what happens - i think about updating the blog on a regular basis but never seem to get around to it - mostly it is a time thing - I HAVE NONE!!!
and i know you are sitting there reading this thinking - i don't want to hear her complain about her lack of time i want to know what those kids have been up too
and they have been busy - so halloween came and went and we had like 2 weeks before we started the x-mas fun!!!
so we had thanksgiving and went for a nice hike since it was like 60+ degrees out
which honestly i like the warm winter thing i do expect snow on turkey day or at least to be wearing a sweater - but we ate and ate and napped and napped - so that is what i call i successful thanksgiving day
during this time we had no camera so i have few pictures but i will find some and post them
to start our x-mas festiveness we went to farmpark for our annual toy building workshop with santas elves and sadie got to talk to Santa about ALL she wants for x-mas
you may ask were was Silas during this visit???
the little guy does not do well on fridays - actually none of us do well on fridays - we usually are all at the point of melting
and that is what happened Si could not wait in line ANYMORE and melted, collapsed, he was melted butter on a hot summer day - collapsed in daddy's arms they both went to the car for a short winter nap
Sadie full of sugar and x-mas spirit kept going like a well you know a kid that is still sneaking halloween candy :)
we tried to keep this year mellow - as we are still adjusting to the schedule of school
but even trying to keep things mellow we had something every day every weekend for the entire month of Nov and Dec....but now we sit only a few days away from the BEST day of the year
our x-mas pageants are done
Silas was a shepard with a little lamb, Sadie was in the knowledgeable nutcracker and was a wonderful twirly flower
enjoy the pictures and the video

Please halloween candy go away

ok - Halloween was weird this year thanks to Frakenstorm Sandy
Halloween was suppose to be on wednesday night but was canceled because of the storm
which i have to say we unfortunately survived - ok let me put this in context for you - we survived which was great - our house, garage and car survived also but that was not great
Aaron and I were really hoping for a new garage/lean to and we were thinking a new roof would be nice.....hoping that 80 mph winds would sort of help us out a bit - but NOOOOO nothing happened our 2 trees are still standing strong and i am starting to wonder if they glued our roof on
the point of this is not to cry over the fact that our house survived and no tree landed on my car it has to do with trick o treating!
so the city of cleveland rescheduled halloween trick or treating to saturday!! yipppeeee- totally looking forward to that - but than they canceled it for saturday
like anyone in the sity of cleveland actually listens to the Mayor - the kids were still dropped off by the van fulls at the end of the street
and Sadie and Si still got to walk the street and get a bunch of candy - i love halloween and trick o treating but i am ready for the candy to BE GONE!!!
and this is the reason why:

Sadie singing a school song

i don't know much about this song or where is came from but it is wonderful and Sadie is so proud of it - she performed this last night for me several times