Gift Opening Excitment

These were obviously from a couple of days ago. The gift opening was pretty exciting. Both kids had some really over the top reactions.

The Boy handing out one of the first gifts to be opened.


"It's a train! Open the box! Faster! Open! Santa brought a train!"


A short video of the excited pair opening some of their gifts. For the record, I didn't get them either of those gifts. I thought we narrowly escaped the whole Barbie thing but we didn't. Oh well.


After all the gifts had been opened, the Girl posed for a "victory" picture. There were more, but this was all she could carry. Hubby and I didn't really get the kids anything this year because they just have too much stuff. Somehow, they still ended up with 7 or 8 gifts each to open.


The Boy was much more sensible. He is wearing his new Christmas outfit and playing with his new train and animals. He saved the rest for later.


Then the Girl turned into our photographer. Here is her version of "daddy and his gifts".

Concert Part 2

Okay, the video was too long and it was too painful for an unskilled imovie user to edit it so I am not putting up the last one. To request a copy on CD, please send a self address envelop to La Casa De Langlangcreations. You will receive your order within a year or two. (No, really, just email me and I will send you a copy on CD.)


Oh, seeing his big sister perform totally puts the Boy in concert mode. Here is his version of his favorite Christmas carol. I love how he sings with so so so much gusto! Hey!

Merry Christmas!

I was going to edit these videos before I put them here. Then I realize it's going to take way too much time. I won't be done until Christmas 2010. So, here they are in their original form.



There are a couple others but they are too big to put on here. Maybe I will do them tomorrow.

On Demand Sewing

The Girl performed at her school wide Christmas concert last week. The concert was at 5:45. In the morning when she went to class, she saw that her friends were wearing pink dresses. So she requested at 1pm that I turn her white dress into a pink dress with lots of flowers on it. I convinced her to nap and got working.

Here is what we had to work with.


The most obvious thing was to add a pink sash.


Then I got working on the flowers. I have a lot of fabric at home but not a lot of trims. I had to make some flowers. The easiest thing to work with was felt. Luckily, I had a couple pieces of red and pink felt left from other projects. The first flower I made was this red one. I wanted some bright colours to make it more Christmas-y and less Easter-y.


I really liked how the first flower turned out. So I got thinking about what she can wear with the dress. The dress comes with a silver shrug which I was sure she was not going to want to wear. Then I remember how much I love seeing little girls wear capelets. I had some fleece left from Halloween so I made her a quick capelet and embellished it with more pink flowers.


Here is a closer look at the flowers.


The Girl had doubts when she saw the look I created. I had to convince her that she had quite enough flowers on her outfit and that I would be sure to remember to buy her a pink dress next time. Despite all this doubt, she was quite happy once she put the dress on.


Here is the complete outfit.


Here are some pictures to give you a sneak peak of the concert.








Stay tuned. Details of the concern will be here tomorrow.

More Elves and Christmas Activities

The Boy's last dance class was Christmas themed. For the first time, the costumes were not all girly girly.

Elf with an attitude.


A class of elves.


The Girl had to miss her last class because we overslept. So we made up for it by going to a cookie decorating party. Icing in every colour imaginable - YUM!


Here are a few more decorations that went up at our house. First, a picture of our mantle.


Here are a couple of ornaments we made last year.


Finally, a picture of our tree all lit up.

Elf At The Zoo

We went to see the reindeer at the zoo. Unfortunately, the reindeer couldn't make it this year. But the Boy had fun seeing the gorilla and giraffe.





Aside: I found some free printable gift tags that are super cute. Check out this, this, this, and this if you are in the market for some nice holiday gift tags. Heck, just go here for a master list of freebies and pick your own favorites. Happy gift wrapping!

It's Starting To Feel A Lot Like Christmas

Actually, it's been feeling like Christmas for a week now. The defining moment was of course when we got the tree.

The Girl and I sorting through our small ornament collection.


I thought we'd start a new tradition this year with Christmas ornaments. Each year, we are going to buy a few ornaments that reflects the events of that year.

For the Girl, 2009 is the year of princesses. We saw the princesses at Disney and she is just obsessed with them. So naturally, she got her pink (her "best" colour) princess ornament.


The Boy is in love with Cars so he was happy to get his Mater Car ornament.


The Hubby started riding a bike to work this year so we got him a handmade pewter bike ornament. I didn't take a picture of it but here is a picture of how happy he was after he put it on the tree.


Here is our finished tree! I am excited and am definitely in a holiday mood.


PS I haven't been blogging much because 1. we've been busy and 2. my keyboard is broken. It's a pain to write and not be able to use any of the letters on the bottom row of the keyboard. I am looking for a fix. In the mean time, there is a lot of pounding on the computer and cursing. Arrrrrggggghhh!