Countdown to Christmas - Day 4

Day 4! Another happy advent morning :) She was quite happy with her little scratchie game!

 

 

We are babysitting Peluche for a few days! He obviously noticed that the tree is up... blocking his view out the window!!  What a tough life he has!

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Countdown to Christmas - Day 3

If this picture could talk! LOL

 

I think it would say "Mom, why do I have to get up SO early??? Can I go back to bed after I open my advent calendar?"

Nicole and I finished up our sale today! We are so close to 900$ ... so we will continue selling some at our desks if people want some. We somehow NEED to get to 1000$!! Makes all our work in the past 3 weeks worthwhile!

I've been really exhausted since we were go-go-go this past week.. I stayed up way later than I had planned, and was up much earlier than the sun!! Time to catch up now... :)

Countdown to Christmas - Day 2

Day 2 already! I knew December would go by quickly! Poor Maelie will always look half asleep on her advent calendar pictures ...!!

 

Today was focussed on the card sale!! We set up at work , it was hard to fit the cards on three whole tables!

So many adorable models!! We got a bunch of our ideas on Pinterest of course!

Some of our favorites!

More of my favorites!

The cutesy cards left first (penguin, elf, Rudolph)... so Nicole and I will make more tonight to replenish the stock!

Crazy ladies? Why yes, yes we are!! Like 400 cards is not enough! It's all for a good cause though! All the money raised is going directly to the charity campaign at work!

Countdown to Christmas - Day 1

Once again, it is my favorite time of the year!! Countdown to Christmas!! Maelie's favorite time as well.... advent calendar time!! :)

"Mom I know what this is! It's obvious! The bag smells!!"

Ah... the fresh smell of spearmint gum! She had just been saying yesterday that she needed gum... so perfect timing!

My recent weeks have been filled and filled with a project that actually is ending tomorrow! For weeks now, Nicole and I have been working on making Christmas cards. Today was our last day for working on them for the purpose of charity! We will be selling them at work and donating all the proceeds to the United Way campaign. By the end of the evening, we counted about 382 cards... with a few already at work, so we MAY have surpassed 400!!

This is part of the reason why I barely have any pictures taken this past month! I was downstairs in my craft room making cards morning and night! We can't wait to see how the sale will turn out. The quality of the cards is really good and the choice is varied. Nicole and I both have different tastes in cards, but we really appreciate the differences! We have a bigger variety because of our different tastes!

Happy December!! Cheers to a happy, healthy countdown to Christmas!

1st snowstorm!

The snow started yesterday and kept going all night... it was nice and sticky by the end of the day! Maelie was soooooooooooooooo happy! She always loves the first real snow. They didn't get a snow day from school though... the busses never get cancelled here it seems! It took Maelie's bus an hour and a half to get to school!!  Coming home wasn't as bad because the roads had been cleared.

Maelie and Tristan got to get and created a new friend on our lawn!

I love when Maelie enjoys herself outside.. she comes in with cold, rosy cheeks! :) Welcome winter!!

Family time

Maelie had a few days off school this past week... so we decided to take a mini vacation! Strangely enough...  I didn't even take my camera out in Quebec! I am a bit disappointed that I forgot! We visited Jacinthe in Quebec and surprised Myriam with a day off school to play with Maelie. It was so much fun to see them... they moved away this past summer and we miss having them close!

After that overnight visit, we went to spend some time at my mom's. Jo and Lucas came down for a family party. Maelie enjoyed meeting some aunts, uncles and cousins. She didn't realize she was part of such a big family! Living far from everyone doesn't help... we don't get to see anyone often.

We did a quick photo shoot while everyone was all dressed up! It's hard to believe that Lucas is a had taller than Grand maman!!

Jo & Lucas :)

Jo & Maelie :)

Hard to believe that they went from the pics above... to the pics below!! Ah.... the price you pay for beauty!!

Maelie was extremely pleased with her vacation!! Sadly, we had to leave everyone behind and go back to reality!

Oh Christmas tree....

Busy as can be these days, and a little behind on our usual holiday festivities, I put the tree up and surprised Maelie this morning!

Maelie wasn't feeling too too well so it took a while to add decorations!! I guess the fact that we don't have a ton of snow right now makes it harder to get into the Christmas mood too!!