Mini-Bourne-Christmas

We decided to have Christmas morning with Grandma and Bumpa while they were here.  And Christmas dinner too.  It was definitely a good substitute for the real deal.  So glad to share Christmas with these guys.

"Crayola Marker-Maker!"  This was a great gift, and a great idea.  Promptly after gift-opening Max disappeared for about 30-minutes.  I finally sent Tyler to find him.  What he found was a boy covered in marker ink and a carpet with a smudged spot of blue where he had spilt within seconds of opening the box, and had spent the next 29.5 minutes scrubbing, trying to get it clean.  As soon as he saw Dad, his eyes got big and teary and he said, "Dad…I need some help!"  Dad couldn't deny his penitence and they worked on cleaning it up together.  Fortunately Crayola is smart enough to make washable markers, and the carpet is 'mostly' clean now.  

'Jake and the Neverland Pirates!!'

Matching Fashion Designer books

I love this series of pictures of my dad opening his Spitfire.  The facial expressions of him and my Grandma are priceless.  

We broke out the games and puzzles right away while turkey dinner finished in it's preparations.  

Skating

While Grandma and Bumpa were here, we decided to take advantage of the free skate at Market Square.  Emma's never been skating before, so she was super excited to go.  She's a bit of a perfectionist as well, so it was hard at first when she couldn't do it right away, but she practiced and caught up to Lucy fairly quickly.

Starbucks handed out free peppermint hot chocolate.  It was deliciously delicious.  Mmmm-mmm.  

My mother in her element.  I wish the rest of us had inherited her talent for skating.  She says when we were kids we lived across the street from a skating rink and at night, after we had all gone to bed, she would go across to the skating rink by herself and skate while dad sat in the living room and watched her from the window.  And when she was a kid, her dad made a skating rink in their backyard and she would be on it all night until the streetlights came out.  

After the zamboni cleared the ice, mom slipped on the new ice and banged her head.  She took it easy from that point…crazy lady.  But she wouldn't stop because she loves skating too much.  

This appears to be a very cruel trick played by a dad on his exhausted son, but to be honest, Logan asked him to do it.  

The Hills Are Alive!

Opening Night of Lucy's play was a huge success.  It was freezing outside, but it was awesome inside. Lucy did a great job!  We weren't allowed to take pictures of videos throughout the performance, but I did manage to get some curtain call pictures.  What a princess.  She has worked SO hard and practiced a lot.  She was full of nerves when her and I arrived and getting her mic taped to her neck brought her to tears.  I hugged her quickly and reminded her that she knew her stuff.  She said,

"Mom, I'm not worried about me!  I'm worried about everyone else!"

Thus speaks the perfectionist.

When she first marched into the room she was biting her cheeks to not smile at all her family in the front row.

Standing Ovations!!