The Mooney Clan

This year my siblings and I are all in different places for Christmas so we decided to get together this past weekend to exchange gifts and spend some time together at mom and dad's. It was a lot of fun. It's really nice now that my little boys don't need as much constant attention. Life is getting a little simpler - thank goodness. Here are a few pictures from our weekend: Caden and cousin Keiran (they are 3 weeks apart) Lana and Gabby Uncle Chris, cousin Jeremy and cousin Beth Liam Dylan Evan and Jaiden Evan Liam with grandma and grandpa Jocelyn Caden Grandpa and Liam Evan Dylan Merry Christmas Everybody!

It was gingerbread house day at Caden's Preschool and they invited parents to stay and help. Justin worked from home (the kids nap during preschool time) so that I could go. It was a nice afternoon with Caden and I had a chance (finally) to meet some of the kids he talks about all the time. I had a really nice visit with a couple of the moms too. Apparantly Caden is some kind of ladies man because both of their daughters come home talking about him everyday. The one little girl keeps asking if he can come over for a sleepover :) Pretty cute.

Check out this restaurant . Guess we have to go to New York City.....

We took the kids tobogganing tonight. We went as soon as Justin got home from work and caught the very end of daylight. It's not as dark out as it looks in the pictures. The little kids had never gone before. It was all pretty predictable. Liam screamed when he went and was the first one shivering. Evan liked it ok but then wandered over to the playground. Dylan and Caden were the ones that wanted to keep going. I missed it but I guess Caden and Dylan had a bit of a tumble near the end. But they both wanted to go a couple more times. Good for them! Caden and Evan Caden Evan and Dylan Evan and Dylan - weeeeee! the end of that ride.... Liam getting back out - he had just gone down the hill and is freaking out. He's funny though. I still think he kind of liked it. It's almost like he cries because that is his thing no matter what new thing he is trying. Evan and Liam were done first so I pulled them back to the van and we warmed up while the other 3 went down a co...

December has been pretty fun so far. Here are a few pictures. Caden started off the month by having his best buddies, Elijah and Michael sleep over. Fun with the Santa hats. They never want to wear them when I ask them but then other times I notice them running around with them on. I took a few pictures at moms and tots a week or so ago. This is Evan and Dylan admiring the newest baby to our group - Ella Dylan trying to relive the good ole days when he could fit into this chair. Aubrey Kelli and Luca Jonas Michael I'll have to take more pictures so that I can have more of everyone. I already posted the Santa pictures. This is our family out for supper at the food court afterwards. They did well but there is definately a very specific, and by that I mean short!, time period to get our food eaten before they are ready to run! Last night was our Christmas Party for our moms and tots group. The dads came too and everybody brought lots of food and treats. Yum. It was really nice t...

We took the kids to see Santa tonight. Caden had a chance to tell Santa what he wanted for Christmas and to sit on his lap. He couldn't get away from the fake smile but that's ok. Dylan sat there but was pretty nervous. The other two boys wouldn't sit with Santa at all and Evan would barely sit still with me. But we got 4 decent enough pictures and had a nice night out together. We ate in the food court after. The boys sat up to the table and ate pretty nicely. They got a little squirrely at the end but I was pretty impressed. I think we all enjoyed just getting out together and having a change of scenery. Here are the pictures of the kids with Santa. The first one is of Caden in 2007 when he was one and a half - just for fun.

Having three 2 year olds is crazy. Crazy busy, crazy cute and crazy fun. And it takes a hammer to blogging time. So forgive me for it being so long since writing! It's been a great few weeks. I went to Manitoba with Sara and Vicki to stay with our friend Laura. What a wonderful time - to have a break from the kiddoes and to make new memories with 3 beautiful women. Thanks guys! Last weekend was another fun girls get together. We went to the Rankin Sisters Christmas Concert at the Casino after meeting for supper at Viet Thai. Another really fun time with about 20 of us in total. WOW! Then, there was a sister triangle meeting on saturday. I feel very lucky to have been invited to be a part of what they do. It's a blessing to me for sure. That makes me want to remind you ladies that Ladies Retreat at Kenosee Lake is February 25 - 27. It's such a nice weekend. I look forward to it every year. Think about coming ! I've really been feeling blessed. I guess it...

The sun is actually shining in my windows today. Thank goodness. I was feeling pretty gloomy from all that cloud cover. And maybe it will motivate me to get out of my pajamas. I'm actually having a bit of an internal debate. I'm wondering why we bother? I mean the little kids never leave the house (unless we leave town and then they just stay in the house wherever we've travelled to). It makes me want to cry. But, back to my point. I get the kids up and changed and dressed for the day most days. Then at night we take off their clothes, throw them in the laundry and put their pajamas back on. So, each day I have that small chore AND we make all this laundry. Then I do a load or two of laundry per day. SO - If we just stayed in our pj's all day (no one really sees us anyway) we'd have half as much laundry. HMMM. It really is tough though - that my kids have so little variety in their life. We can't go swimming or skating or sledding. We can try ...

We headed to Estevan to celebrate with our 'people' down there. It was lots of fun. We got to spend time with people, we had cake (store bought - no transporting home made cakes for us this time) and opened lots of gifts (thanks everyone!). Here are a few pictures. Liam and Grandma Gabby and Liam Beth and Evan Avis and Jilena Store bought big cake and the boys' little cakes blowing out candles spitting on cake and almost burning his eyebrows off!