Team Schmidt

Oh my gosh I haven't blogged in 3 months.  Time flies.  My laptop was running low on disk space, so I couldn't import any more pictures from my camera.  What's a blog post without pictures?  I finally bought an external hard drive, so we're back in business.  Unfortunately a lot has happened the past 3 months.  I thought about just skipping over them, but I would be sad if I didn't document.

Flashback to December...

We decided to do an activity advent calendar.  I just made up some envelopes from striped paper and we wrote 24 activities on little cards to go inside the envelopes.  Some were bigger than others, but the boys loved waking up each morning to see what we were going to do.

one day we had an indoor picnic

we rode the train downtown to the Christkindle market

getting some pretzels at the market

afterwards we stopped by Magnolia Bakery for cupcakes (for the boys) and banana pudding (for me)

we visited the Winder Wonderland Express at the Chicago Botanic Gardens (twice actually).   It was awesome-that's downtown Chicago made of plant materials.  

We visited the children's museum where Sam taught Parker some dad skillz

my favorite favorite FAVORITE thing we did was ride the Christmas CTA train.  Seriously it was awesome.  There was tinsel, lights, and elves handing out candy canes inside.  AND Santa and his reindeer ride on an open car in the train so you can get out and say hi at the end of the line.  Magic.

It was a fun month and by the time Christmas rolled around our wall looked more like this.  I love holiday cards.