Weekend & SNOW DAY!

We had a fun weekend - we live very close to Hampton Court - the Winter diggs of Henry VIII - he'd ride down the Thames on the royal barge and come celebrate down here - it was dang cold - you could see why the royals needed so many footmen about too keep the fires stoked!


All of my "Other Boleyn Girl" reading has come in handy here - along with all of my Jane Austen - at least I know where places are! Hampton Court is much larger than I realized so luckily we purchased a family season pass so we can come back to explore - they even have a weekend in March to come and cook in their vast kitchens with the huge hearths - they also have an outdoor ice skating rink right now and a merry-go-round and Sugar Floss (Cotton Candy)



Later Saturday night we had our friends the Hamberlin's over for dinner. We introduced them to Wii Fit - I have some great video footage of Mark doing the Hoolahoop catch! I'm saving that for a future bargaining chip.



We also taught them the Left, Right, Center game - we didn't plan well though because we didn't have enough coins so we played with playing cards instead - however, the two littlest ones (Emma & Lucas) ending up winning!



You can't see them as well as we intended but cutie patutie Tristan has on fashion tights - the ones with that look like Mary Janes - however she also slept through church so no one got to see her fabulous outfit - oh well - there's always next week.

Today was the first day back to school - we woke up to snow!! I'm a Calfornia Girl - so weird to send the kids out to school in the snow (thank heaven school wasn't closed!) They all loved it - you wouldn't know it, but these pictures were taken at 7:45 whilst we waited for the bus to come to the house. Mike couldn't get out of the drive way in his car - luckily mine is 4-wheel drive so he ended up taking my car.
Sadly my car sits outside - we only have a one car garage if you can believe it!


The kids had a good day - it snowed all morning - Mike tried to buy salt on the way home - but their pint sized psuedo Home Depots sold out within 15 mins after they opened - we'll see how it goes tomorrow!