December

Here is what we were up to in December:

Jack had a project in his French class to do an "All about me" poster. He had to give the presentation in French and I thought I had filmed it but turned out I didn't ever start the video :( But here is the poster he created

Luke has had an easy month at work with lots of parties and fun activities. One day the team all went to an escape room;

At home we've continued with house projects. This month Luke hooked up all the new lights

Our new chandelier was quite the project as it consisted of hundreds of shells that were each individually wrapped

So handy to have an electrical engineer in the house

I took the kids to see Santa. Josie was excited to see Santa at first

But when we finally got to him, she didn't want anything to do with him

But a a week later we saw Santa at the gym and Josie finally conquered her fear!

Another night we went to a Christmas tree lighting. It was crowded and freezing but the kids enjoyed it

The kids and I went sledding after school one day

Speaking of school, Lily wrote her first love letter to a boy in her class, Caden:

 

Here is Lily and her class at their holiday party

I was able to hit the trails a couple times when it was warmer enough to bring Josie along

Josie really is pushing her independence lately. She wants to do everything I do, and do it by herself. Including wearing mascara...

 And putting on deodorant

 

Here are some cute videos of Josie's spunky personality:

The kitchen is pretty much finished! Here are before and after pictures:

Even though the kitchen is brand new, we still suffered from some plumbing issues. One night I went in the basement to play with the kids only to find water leaking from above. As it turns out, out island sink plumbing became disconnected and all the sink water was flooding into the cabinet and seeping down through the piping. It could have been a disaster, but thankfully we caught it right away!