One week down and two weeks to go till Christmas. This kids are really getting excited to be out of school. Four days left is what Emily was singing this morning getting dressed. I think they are more excited about getting 2 weeks off from school than Christmas.

Michael arrived back home yesterday after his weekend at camp. He said they had a great time. They got snowed on. He said it was so cold. The thoughts that ring in my head are Told you so, but of course I bit my lip and just smiled. Its a good thing that his mean old mom made him take gloves and his dad's winter jacket. Just think how cold he would of been if I let him just take his sweatshirt and jeans. HA. He said they ate good and the camp was neat, but he only received about 7 hours of sleep the whole weekend, so by the time we got home he was tired and grouchy. We feed him and sent him to bed. Hopefully this morning he will feel better.

Nick who is such a great sport, played with Emily all weekend, and I think is very grateful he gets to go to school to day. Friday night he went to bed really early with a headache. Saturday we drove to Scottsdale to see Don's parents and celebrate his dad's Bday. We had a good time visiting with everyone. While there Emily and Nick wrote letters to Santa to take to the mall and drop off. My kids have always been afraid of Santa and never want to sit on his lap, so we write letters to him instead and take them to him. Which was a good thing this year, the wait to see Santa was 3 1/2 hours. Yikes.

After dropping our letters off, we stopped by the pet store to see the puppies before coming home, they had the cutest golden lab/poodles. They looked like golden lab that were all fluffy. I tried to talk Don into buying one, but after we saw the price tag; $2000, we passed. Seems like a lot of money for a pet. After the mall we came home and rented movies and slept in late on Sunday. Sunday afternoon we drove to school to get Michael. The kids only have 4 days of school left this week till winter break. Its final week so the boys will be studying alot, so hopefully it will be quiet but somehow I doubt it.