Holidays!

Aside from Christmas, our activities during our time off were kind of limited by our small peoples cold and fevers... and mine too (Aleksy managed to get out of this one). Logan was pretty cranky but we were able to sneak in some small adventures:

We had this (double) date night planned for a long time on Dec 28th and lucky me I was feeling super fevery that day. Nothing will stop me from going out when we have a babysitter though so I toughed this one through.

We did Waldos on King for supper (because there is nowhere with space before a nights game at 6pm on a Friday!) and then headed to a nights game. Chels and I talked about our adventures in parenting and her new career plan instead of watching any of the game. I also learned that the least appealing drink when one has a fever is wine (Aleksy drank mine). And because I'm a trooper, we went out for drinks and appetizers after too! Surprisingly, the bar across from bud gardens 93 & King was not busy at all. It was awesome with half price appetizers too! We were back and in bed before midnight and my fever went away overnight!

The next big thing was our new bed was delivered on the saturday after the game (boxing day specials!). We wasted no time and Aleksy and this super duper helper put together our new headboard (that was sitting in the garage for 3 months!).

I didn't know just how much our old queen hard mattress sucked until we got this amazing soft King. The rest of our room will have to wait until mat leave is over and I get real paychecks again!

We had a spontaneous bowling day on the Saturday too! It was a huge hit with Logan. First time bowling. Bowling with a 3 year old means that we get a turn for every 10 of his turns. He was nice enough to tell us exactly the ball that we should use when it was our turn and would get it for us.

Leah's favourite thing is to be around Logan and watch what he does so she was a happy camper too despite it being right smack dab in the middle of her nap time.

It's way too convenient that Fleetway has the DQ right inside. So we had to get ice cream of course. Haven't gone out for ice cream since the summer!

And this new years we went to my new neighbour friend's house for some festivities. I realized really close to New years that we didn't have any plans and when Stephanie invited us over, we jumped on spending new years eve with others!

We didn't stay late because... kids. But, we did get our party hats and glow sticks on and call it a party. The kids all loved it!

Logan had tons of fun at the other Logans house... particularly with his awesome selection of toys... trains AND the paw patroller.

And after the kiddos were in bed by 9, we used our gift basket from Christmas to whip up the best new years snack. Bread dip AND chutneys for our cheese. Along with a little racko and scrabble, we made it all the way to midnight then watched the ball drop and immediately went to bed at 12:01 like all the cool kids do.

And New years day, we thought it would be a great idea to get out to Storybook Gardens to the skating trail since we were given a membership for Christmas and Logan hadn't been on skates for a couple weeks. We got in the car and both kiddos zonked right out so we went for a little drive with coffee. When we got to Storybook and woke Logan up, he was not having any of it and refused to skate! After nap crankies are a real thing for us and we will try this again on a morning when he is happier!

But guess who was happy watching all the skaters go around?!