Lunch with Great Grandma!

Today all the Remillard great grand kids surprised Great Grandma Pauline for her 85th Birthday!  She was very excited and loved seeing all the kids.  And the kids had lunch at McDonald's, they weren't about to complain about that!  Ha ha!  

Happy Birthday Great Grandma Pauline!  Love, Rhys, Andrew, Anna, Olivier, Mason, and Natalie!  

Family Photos!

We took family photos at the beginning of November and they turned out great!  It has been fun to see the kids grow and change over the last three years worth of photos.  A lot less bribing was needed this year too which was nice!  :-)  

Anna

 Mason and Olivier

 Olivier

 Anna (they loved sitting in the tree!)

 Mason was full of smiles (until he fell)

 The boys loved using the stools Dana brought with her.

 Mason

 Olivier (being typical silly Olivier)

 My three "babies"

 Anna

 Olivier

 They had their silly moments

 And they were ready to be done

 One last photo!

Enjoy!

Run Run Mommy!

Tania ran the SLO Reindeer Run 5K today!  Costumes were encouraged and Tania and Jenni didn't disappoint.  Great determination to get out on a cold and rainy morning!

The kids were promised splashing and rain if they hurried to get ready to surprise Mommy on the course.  She thought we'd all be sleeping in or at least staying inside our warm, dry house but we were ready to cheer her on!

The elf girls leading a pack of runners about 1/2 of a mile into the course.   

We decided to surprise Mommy again by driving over to the finish area to cheer her on even more!  The kids found Santa and got their picture with him so they got their own surprise!

Strong at the finish and still smiling!  Great job Tania Mommy!

Christmas parade

To kick off the holiday season we went to the Christmas parade!  After a day celebrating with family we took a short walk and got one of the last curb spots for the parade.  The weather was unseasonably warm which made it very nice parade watching weather.  :-) 

I didn't take too many photos during the parade but here are a couple from the beginning.  

I got a short video clip of Rhys dancing to the music from the band.  It was really cute to watch.  (I messed with the brightness so you could see her better since it was rather dark out.)

It was our second year getting together and going to the parade.  It has been so much fun that I hope to make it an annual tradition! 

Thanksgiving break

We had a great Thanksgiving holiday and Anna decided to wear her Pilgrim costume.  This is all I got of it but she was excited to show off another project from school (since we had already seen her other costume during the feast at school).   

Matt had a great craft project to do with the kids.  They made the pumpkins we had left into snowman heads!  :-)  First they had to be painted white which they enjoyed.  

 And they liked showing off the finished product.

 Olivier with his skeleton snowman.  He is very attached to the skeleton pumpkin so we left one side a skeleton and one side became a snowman head.

 Mason showing off the ones he worked on.

 And Anna with her snowmen.

 Today we put the tree up and decorated a bit.  We usually do it while the kids are napping but decided not to this year.  It was a lot more work but they loved being more involved in the process.

 It is fun to see them get into the holiday!

Park time!

The kids had the day off from school today so Matt was in charge of keeping them busy!  They spent the morning at the park in front of Anna's school.  

And Olivier showed off his ability to go down the pole by himself.

Thanksgiving feast at Anna's school

Anna's kindergarten classes had a Thanksgiving feast!  She was very excited, after all, what kindergartener doesn't love to put on a costume, sing, tell a few jokes, and eat?  :-)  

Here is a collection of songs, and a fair amount of Spanish in there!  

Anna had the closing joke!  :-)

All the kids enjoying the feast!