A Day in the life...: December

Ahhh- December.

Where did you go? It's the 28th- three more days.

Always, every single year, Thanksgiving comes and goes and then I feel like it's GAME ON. Errands, Christmas cards, light seeing, shopping, wrapping, parties, kids activities, etc... I stress myself out for no reason because it ALWAYS gets done.

And I was done this year by the 15th- the day the kids got our for Christmas break.

Besides all of the Christmas fun Riley began winter training for her middle school lax team that's she's playing with this upcoming year, started her Polar Bear lacrosse games and Jack started his rec basketball team with a bunch of his buddies. So much fun. Poor hadley doesn't have an activity right now but she is really into 'playing' lacrosse as well. She loves going outside with Riley and can manage a lacrosse stick like a boss. We may have her do the clinics this spring (although technically she should be in kindergarten to do these) and she will also play soccer again.

We spent the day down in Columbia last Monday with Paa Paa and then visiting with Pop Pop and headed down to the beach Wednesday the 20th for Christmas.

This week we are back at it - getting the kitchen ready for a remodel starting in a week and a half or so - making final decisions (stove, microwave, sinks, faucets, cabinets, hood, paint, etccc!!). So much to choose but oh so fun. Our basement is slowly turning into a kitchen storage unit!

Some pics and videos recently:

Christmas card outtakes:

Haddie excited about her homemade (at school) nativity scene).

This is what you look like at 7:00 when you wake a the butt crack of dawn.... ugh! The month of December sure has excited Hadley but she's been waking super early. Today she snuck in our room, grabbed the ipad and got herself some milk (there was a full cup in the fridge) while we were still sleeping.

Choices, choices, choices.... we are very excited for this kitchen redo. Three months of crazy for a brand new kitchen double the size it currently is. I'll take it!

Riley had her last Christmas party that I'll attend.... boo! One last semester of elementary school for her! She's more than ready for middle school- she'd go tomorrow if she could. (Kids are obsessed with onsies).

At the exact same time of Riley's class party was Hadley's last preschool performance. Todd went to that one and videotaped her songs. She's in the middle with a red candy cane shirt on.

Again- zonked out.... cutie pie!

Rec hoops... boys are playing U18... yes that it's boys under the age of 18. Crazy but they can't play U14 since most of them are already 14. They lost their first game by 40 or so points but didn't care. They had a blast and loved it.

Add Hadley to the list of Milligan kids who like sushi. I likely never heard of sushi until maybe college??? Who knows. It's Jack's favorite food and he begs us to take him to eat sushi. Kid better get a good job when he gets older to pay for his eating habits.