On to Christmas Break

 Kids

Claire and Shay had a fun week of school dressing up for their spirit days with red or green for Santa vs Grinch Monday, Christmas Hat Tuesday, Fancy Wednesday, Christmas sweater Thursday, and PJ Friday. They participated in each one, and of course, I was terrible at thinking about getting pictures for the blog...oops, but they were wearing their sweaters when they came home to decorate present bags for their teachers, so you can see them at the table with Adrian, who pushed a chair over to join. On Friday morning, I let them open the gift from me, which was new PJs, so they could wear them to school, and we washed them again so they get to wear them for Christmas morning this week. They were a little long for my shorties and dragged on the ground a little, which made them sad, but dirt washes out easily! Then they got to wear them to a babysitting party at the church while I surprised Daddy with a date. Adrian likes to work out with me now that I did it a few times when he wasn't napping, and he lay next to me to do abs, which made me laugh and share with Chris. We had some fun making gingerbread cookies last night, as they picked that over going to see Christmas lights, which will be another night.

Date

The Young Women in our ward were fundraising in different ways and had a night with games, movies, and all sorts of fun, playful things for kids on Friday night. Chris knew about it, but I didn't plan anything with him because it started at a perfect time that I could drop the kids off and get to his work before he got off. I waited for him in the parking lot and tried to scare him as he walked to his car, but I'm not that sneaky, and it was just fun to surprise him and catch him off guard. We went to KPot, our favorite Korean BBQ that we have been wanting to go back to for a delicious meal. It was a wonderful date, and the kids were having a lot of fun when I went to pick them up. It was funny that Adrian was sitting in his own seat and happily eating popcorn while watching a movie, so I sat next to Shay and waited for him to notice me. When he did finally look over, he made a funny sound as if to say 'what the?' and got down from his seat so he could sit on my lap. 

Car

Our need for a car moved up on our timeline by a few months because of a visit to the mechanics, and we bought a new car yesterday! We have been saving up for it for a few months, so luckily we had enough time to buy it fully out of our cash and a little from the emergency fund. I do think it is because we found a great price on what we needed, because I searched as thoroughly as I could, and went test driving this week with Adrian. I had a few requirements and knew about what they would cost us, so we were prepared with preapproval if we had to. I feel happy with our purchase, even though neither of us knows too much about cars. We are going to be taking it to get checked out on Monday to make sure there are no major issues, but since the dealer took off $3,000 from their sticker price, it would have to be really major issues under the hood for me to think we got ripped off.