There are worse things I could do......

Tonight we all curled up in front of the fire with the lights glowing from the Christmas tree, and we watched Grease. Abigail LOVED that she knew some of the songs from her tap dancing routine and couldn't believe that John Travolta did some of the same moves as her (hahahaha) even though (as she put it) he looked a little like a vampire (hahaha)!

The children were laughing at me because I was singing aong to all the songs and knew all the words and was saying how I had always wnated to be Sandy. I used to have a poster of John Travolta in my bedroom when I was Susies age - from 'Look-in' magazine!!! I told them that he is now the voice of Bolt!!!

It was fun to watch Grease again - I guess it was the 'High School Musical' of our day ;) Actually it was of my sisters day as I was too young for it really. But I did love it :) I remember watching it on video at Tizzy Cartwrights birthday party - her Dad was showing off that they were the first in the village to own a video recorder!!! Too funny!

This song by Rizzo is my favourite song from the movie - by my favourite character!!! I may have wanted to be Sandy but if I had been in the movie I think I would have played Rizzo......I'm NOTHING like Sandy lol!

The finished houses....

And here are the finished houses.....each team with their own house...and Chris trying to pretend he was with the girls team because their house was the better house hahahahaha - ie it stayed together, the tree wasn't snapped in half and they actually remembered to USE the gingerbread men!!!!  All in all it was good fun!!!  And yes as you can see, Sam was sneaking candy the whole way through - he is TOTALLY wired on sugar!!!!

Our Saturday

Chris invited a group of friends over today...but in the end only a couple of them came...probably because the temperature is -26c and the windchill is (ie it feels like) -39c and some of them were coming from Edmonton on the bus!!!  But his friend from school came and a friend from the village here and I think they had a good time!  They had a gingerbread house making contest - girls against boys.  Max is quite used to our mad house as he has been here several times, and knows Sam and the others well but Kiray is an only child so probably thought she had entered a mad house with candies being thrown around the place (yes even at me) and Sam chasing people with Santa signs and lots of noise and chaos.....but at the end of the day she said she WOULD be venturing back here again!!!  So I will take that positively ;)

Laurence escaped with Lloyd for the afternoon - they went off to buy some more straw bales for Charlie.  I had the Christmas music playing, finished decorating the Christmas tree, worked on some VERY special scrapbook layouts I'm doing!!!  And on some more Snowman soup and things I'm doing!!!

It's been a lovely 'at home' day - staying snuggly and warm on a bitterly cold day.  The children have had fun - Susie and Abby also made Christmas cards.  They watched 'The Polar Express' as well and listened to their Disney Christmas music cd.