Good Times

Oh the good times. You know in these last few days before Christmas, I’ve really tried to slow down and actually kind of try to enjoy the season. Kind of.

We had some cousins over the other day for some activities and boy time. Well the activities were sort of “mom-induced” my craft days are extremely limited you know. Even cookie and ornament decorating lasted about all of 9 minutes, but hey we’re creating memories.

We really havent’ left the house much. Here is our self-photo of the day from Wednesday. My boys look thrilled don’t they?

We stopped by my parents house the other day, the Baby was asleep for while. Here he is waking up, Gramma had to get him.

And then we headed out to see Christmas lights with friends. Of course the kids had to play beforehand. Notice which boys just congregate together.

Laughs were had. By the big people and the little people.

And these two were just smitten with the Dunbar Baby. They don’t get to see a baby often enough, I think. Chunk was just happy to be close to Ray-Ray, he loves her.

Of course once we were actually walking around I didn’t take one picture. Here is a shot I ordered politely asked Mr. Dunbar to take.

And our family photo of the night. Ha.

One unexpected thing did happen though. Mr. Dunbar broke my stroller. Literally, broke the handle right off. SPLIT. No more handle. I’ve been contemplating for months about buying a new stroller but couldn’t bring myself to do it since I didn’t need one.

Ah well. I guess now I do.  Do you know Mr. Dunbar’s response when I told him so. “Chunk is 10 months, he’ll be walking soon. We don’t need a stroller!” {Men.}

Anyhow, Mr. Dunbar is home now. So we’re going to get in some family time before the Chaos we call Christmas begins tomorrow.

Happy Holidays everyone. I hope you spend it with loved ones…joyfully.

~mrs. dunbar

Jingle Bells

Well okay, I don’t really have any Christmas bells to share with you, I just wanted to type that.

I had to put the Reese’s Mini’s up on a shelf out of little hands reach and mine too.

I made some cupcakes for Mr. Dunbar’s employees this week. Only two (not-so-pretty) ones were saved for little people who like cupcakes. Little boys don’t care whether the frosting looks good or not. They did look in the mirror to check their tongues afterwards though.


The next day I was making crescent rolls (from a tube) when Bogie rushed to wash his hands and pop in the kitchen to help me. Can you tell which ones are his? I was cracking up and sort of gagging. But I baked them anyways. Nobody noticed the difference but me.


This guy is just a snuggler. A very wiggly giggly snuggler. He's also 10 months old today and is cutter his first tooth... on the top. Looks like the bottom ones are not going to come in after all.

And these two have discovered that they can watch Christmas movies on You Tube. I can’t find any of our Christmas DVD’s. No Frosty, no Rudolph, no Miracle on 34th street.  I’m just not willing to go out and buy them again, when I am convinced there is another Christmas bin the the black hole we call a garage.

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I think Meg’s house is my absolute favorite this holiday season. I love everything about it. It’s classic. And friendly. And fun.
Loved it. Loved it. Loved it.
 
Every single one of her shots was fabulous.


I don’t have any fantastic home photos, but I did catch this one.

And he’s mine all mine. Along with a Pluto Band-Aid on the bumm.

~mrs. dunbar

My first WIWW

One day last week, Bogie’s best friend’s Mom asked me, “How do you do it? How do you get dressed up every day?” HUH? Dressed up?  No, not me.  I was not only  surprised, but totally flattered. And then the next day Genn encouraged me to participate in WIWW over at The Pleated Poppy…. so I snapped a few pics this past week of What I Wore.  Actually I snapped like 200 and this is what I got. Taking pics of your own clothes is hard work.

Details: Sweater and collared shirt- Banana Republic, Skinnies- Gap, Boots-Kohl’s Candies

Details: Shirt-Banana Republic, Jeans-Old Navy, Boots-Target, Necklace- Ann Taylor, Belt- Windsor

But now, lets be real… I’m a mom and this is what my days look like, too. Especially Fridays. This is my clean, iron, get ready for the weekend look.

Sweats- Old Navy, Tank- Target, Cozy Socks-Macy’s, Baby-Sent from Above

Do you like how I even left the tape tag on my pants?  Just keeping it real.

~mrs. dunbar

The Season’s Premiere Shows

Well last week the boys had their holiday shows. Bogie’s was on Wednesday and Mr. Dunbar was in attendance. Of course when Daddy is present, Mom is all but non-existent. Bogie’s morning was called a “Craft and Carol.” First they built a marshmallow pretzel snowman and these two guys were all over this project.

Just check out that concentration.

After craft time was caroling time. Once the teachers  passed out the jingle bells caroling was forgotten for this guy. Not one word was sung. Not one. But boy did he shake that bell.

 

And who cares if you’re performing, when you’ve got to yawn, you’ve got to yawn.

It was so funny.  I thought he was going to bite somebody’s head off with that ginormous yawn.

 

Next day it was off to Monkey’s performance.

Monkey performed on the big stage at school. As all the parents were waiting patiently for the curtain to open I heard “Mommy! Mommy!”  And sure enough there was my hooligan and his bud, front and center.

I kept mouthing to him, “Take off your sweatshirt.”  He kept shaking his head, “No.” And so another performance with a recalcitrant outfit. Fabulous.

Good times. Good memories.

My favorite song to sing at Christmas Programs was Jingle Bell Rock.

Anyone else have a favorite?

~mrs. dunbar