Merry Christmas

May you get all the gifts you wish for...
And have a little Christmas spirit...

And sing some Christmas carols....

Singing at Daycare from Denise McCabe on Vimeo.

Going to the Zoo

There's nothing more refreshing than going to the zoo to see the OUTSIDE Festival of Lights in 20-30 degree weather, especially when you forget the stroller. But we had our fun at the zoo this past Monday after trying to schedule a time to go and consistently having bad weather. On Saturday, the weather prediction for Monday was a high of 52. Sounds great for December, right? Well, it was 52 that day at about 0400am and then it just got colder throughout the day. At least there was no rain. And the lights were awesome!

All Bundled up.

Sitting on the crocodile.

Janet and Daphne.

Talking to reindeer.
Kevin, me and Daphne.

Celebrating Thanksgiving in Cincinnati

Since we were in Brunswick for Thanksgiving, we celebrating Thanksgiving in Cincinnati and Kim's and Janet's birthday on the weekend after.

Singing Happy Birthday

Blowing out candles

Late entree

In all the hustle and bustle of getting ready for Christmas, I have missed adding anything to this blog. So this week, you will be inundated with pictures that have been loading up on the camera (after all, our memory card holds around 300 pictures, and we have two memory cards!!!). Thanksgiving was great - we celebrated up in Brunswick with my family and then celebrated my Grandma's birthday that same day. Mom and I went out shopping on the dreaded Friday after Thanksgiving at 0700 - which was earlier enough for us, but not early enough to get the annual JCPenney Mickey Mouse Christmas globe! Can you believe that? We also went to the Cleveland Botannical zoo because they had an amazing display of Gingerbread houses.

Making reindeer food with the kids.

My Grandma and her great grandkids (minus 3)

Looking at amazing Gingerbread houses at the Cleveland Botanical Gardens.

Freezing our hineys off at the Cleveland Botanical Zoo. (We forgot Daphne's winter coat and had to buy her another one in Cleveland - so I bought a larger one that she can wear next year - that's why it's so huge!)

Mom & Daphne in the greenhouse.

The Creative Vibe

And I continue on my creative vibe. I finally finished a yarn project. My Grandma's 96th birthday was November 19th and we celebrated it over Thanksgiving. I asked my mom for ideas and she suggested a lap blanket, so I got busy in October and finished it in one month!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!

I found this pseudo-recipe on the internet and thought they would be fun to make. What do you think?

Daphne on the train

This past Saturday, Janet and I went Christmas shopping with the Daphne. And I figured since there was no line and Kevin wasn't with us, let's go see Santa. Well, that was just a bad idea! Daphne didn't want anything to do with Santa. She was fine as we were walking up to him but starting crying as soon as she was near Santa even with me sitting next to Santa. She ran from me into Janet's arms. We couldn't even get any pictures. Despite what Kevin says, we'll keep trying.
On the other hand, she loved the train ride!