Today's the last day of school for two weeks. Yay! Somehow, it's always easier for the boys to get up and get ready for school when it's the last day. This morning they were all happy to get up and dressed and out the door on time. The excitment is building.

My sister, Cathy, just confirmed to me that she and her husband will be spending Christmas with us. So we will have both sets of parents, Cathy and Don, and my brother Rick all with us and staying over on Christmas Eve. I'm so excited. I love having a houseful. It's just like Chrismas was for us when we were children. The boys are so excited about it too, and are more than willing to give up their bedrooms for company and camp out on a couch or floor.

Cathy sent me this picture this morning. 5 of us siblings 45 years ago! Santa doesn't look very impressed!

So Sunday we got a big snow storm ... and we were snowed in! John and I got up at 7 a.m. to check the weather and to debate whether or not we would make the trip into Toronto. At that point the roads were OK, but they were promising to get worse. Then we got some phone calls from some concerned friends and finally one from the pastor who let us know that they were cancelling the services for the day. Yippee. We had a snow day. Spencer seemed OK with it. The enrollment is just postphoned until the new year. I love snow days. We played games, watched the weather network, and puttered around the house. Perfect!

Check out this picture of my boys. I scanned it in for a photo challenge. This picture was taken 9 years ago. Look how blonde they still were!

I'm Done!! Yippee!

My Christmas shopping is done. I'm so happy. This year was tough as only Cameron gave us a wish list. The other two couldn't come up with anything since we told them we weren't buying them anything video/computer game related.

Now all I have to do is wrap, clean, and sit back and enjoy ... at least, after this weekend is over.

This Saturday we have John's family coming for their family Christmas. Not everyone will be able to make it so there will only be 24.

Sunday Spencer is becoming a Senior Soldier (in the Salvation Army that means that he will become a uniform-wearing member of the Church). After Church we have to stay in Toronto. We will go for lunch with the Grandparents and Aunts and Uncles who will be coming to see Spencer's enrollment, and then we have our big Carols and Candles Christmas service in the late afternoon. It will be a busy weekend. We will all crash Sunday night, I'm sure.

In other news, Cameron is very excited because he's been given a solo to play at the school Christmas concert next week. He's so proud of himself.

Matt finally finished his big History essay. What a long, drawn out, ordeal that was. We were all so happy when it was handed in this week. He's so much more relaxed now.

I've been making a few projects around here for Christmas presents. I made these lanterns for the two Grandmothers for Christmas.( no peeking, Mom!) The lanterns are from Ikea. I love the way they turned out.

This is a day in my life! Enjoy!