Garola Gang

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

snow flurries + ice skating = happy georgia peaches

The kids were dying for snow since we never see any on our end. It's really early for snow in Indiana, but we had a morning of flurries that made our southern kiddos very happy. We also threw in some ice skating and everyone had a great time, even the bravest, little skater!

Christmas 2011

We took the Garola Christmas Vacation on the road this year. Destination...Indiana! Lots of craziness, but lots of fun!

fun with our 2nd cousin, Wyatt, who lives in Utah!

Ready for church!

Clara sporting her new "mimmie mouse" glasses

The whole gang!

Monday, December 19, 2011

my little singer

http://youtu.be/wJoLYcOR870

Last week we went to the annual Hem/Onc Christmas Party. There is this awesome band called Songs 4 Kids that always comes. (http://songsforkidsfoundation.org/) i. love. them! For the last 4th year in a row Cade took the stage and sang. He branched away from Feliz Navidad this year and tried his hand at The Twelve Days of Christmas. That song is not for the faint of heart, and he did GREAT! It was very cute!

Christmasy fun!

Yay for matching Christmas tree shirts!

Cora's gingerbread house from Memorial Children's Hospital's Hem/Onc Christmas Pty

Santa picture take two. much better if it weren't for the mommy and crappy background!

Christmas Spaghetti (ok not really, but it was cute, i had to include it!)

santa visit take 3 at "Drive and look at lights night" This awesome house had lights, Santa, and hot cocoa

Another awesome light display! Cora wants this in our yard!

mama and cora's snowman pizza

clara massaging baby sloan

her new pjs are so cute!

cora and her sweet teacher on PJ day at Kindergarten!

Thursday, December 15, 2011

$21.00 plus tax

That was the cost of this....

the worst santa picture known to man! Cora's lemon face is crazy!

But Cade's conversation with Santa was worth the trip:
Santa (stalling because the camera lady was a rookie): So young man are you doing well in school.
Cade: Ya, pretty well.
Santa: Good, because you know it's very important to work hard at school
Cade: Speaking of school, where did you go to school?
Santa: Well the North Pole of course.
Cade: What was the name of your school?
Santa: North Pole School
Cade: Did you have sports there?
Santa: Oh no, that was back a long time ago and North Pole School is very small, under 50 students (I had to give this guy props, he was really playing ball at this point)
Cade: Well then, where did you go to college, because I don't know many people who are Santa Clauses so that must require some pretty special training!!! (for real peeps, those were his exact words!)
Santa: Oh, Santa didn't go to college!
Cade: Why not? How'd you learn how to make toys.
Santa: Oh, well, I've got the elves to do that for me.
.....at this point in the game Santa started to fall a little flat, so I decided to intervene and speed this conversation along...
Me: Cade, Santa learned how to be Santa from his father I'm sure. Don't we have a book at home about how Santa's father was a toy maker and he taught him and that's when the Santa magic began?
Santa: nod in agreement like good save, mom!
Finally the picture lady is ready and Cade drops the questions.
As we leave Cade yells something like, "I'm gonna stay up this year and catch you!"

Then on the way to the car Cade says, "That wasn't the real Santa. I know because I could see right through those answers!"