Home of the Durken’s — Daryl, Amber, Colin & Lauren
Yesterday Colin and Lauren visited Santa at the Holyoke Mall. They each told Santa that they have been good this year and gave him a brief list of toys that they were hoping to receive this year. He thought that they had made some good choices and told them that they needed to continue being good kids.
Colin & Lauren had a surprise visit at school today. Lucky the Leprechaun stopped by and boy-oh-boy did he make a mess. He left green footprints everywhere and even made the milk turn green. Well at least he left his pot-of-gold chocolates behind for all of the trouble he caused.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day from our two lucky charms.
Another winter storm came through dumping around 6 inches of the white stuff. This time the snow was soft and fluffy. While I cleared the driveway with the snow thrower the kids had fun sledding down a small hill in our backyard.
Afterwards I joined them in a snowball fight. You could make the best snowballs with this snow and boy did we. Colin and Lauren had a great time playing outside and helping Dad.
Colin throws a snowball at Dad.
Lauren helps Dad by clearing the snow out of the drain in the front of our house
Tonight was family game night. We pulled out a couple of kid-friendly board games and sat down for an enjoyable evening of family fun. Colin and Lauren had a great time playing a couple of rounds of Candy Land and Chutes and Ladders.
Lauren ended up winning every game and Colin was not happy about this. He had a mini meltdown and we ended up having a discussion about how these games were simply games of chance. However, Colin was quite upset about how Lauren didn’t even let him win one game. “It’s just not fair” he said. Moments later all was forgotten and despite the little meltdown at the end I really believe that everyone had a great time. It was nice to stay home and hang out together.
Colin & Lauren enjoyed another Valentine’s Day. At school the celebrated the day by exchanging cards to all of the classmates. Colin picked out “Cars” themed valentines while Lauren went with “Princess’s”.
Later that evening we handed them their cards from us and of course some candy, a balloon and some other goodies.
Happy Valentine’s Day
Finally Christmas Day had arrived. Colin & Lauren waited patiently in our bedroom until it was time to go downstairs. After I verified that Santa didn’t miss our house I was quickly joined by two very excited kids.
Santa had delivered his goods as anticipated; in exchange for 12 months of niceness and pleasantries. Colin & Lauren opened the gifts in their stockings first. A minute later we moved onto the packages under the tree.
After all the presents were opened we headed towards the kitchen for breakfast where the kids found a yellow Hummer riding toy with a special note from Santa attached with a big red bow.
So how was their Christmas? It was Like Nothing Else™.
Colin and Lauren posed for this wonderful photo that we used on this year’s Christmas cards.
Merry Christmas.
Daryl, Amber, Colin & Lauren!
Colin & Lauren enjoyed trick-o-treating with their friend Evan. Colin decided to dress up in a Lightning McQueen Pit Crew costume. Lauren chose to be Princess Ariel from The Little Mermaid.
