California Wintry Week.

So this week it actually felt like fall/winter and for the most part it was fun.
We had "hot cocoa a la ice cream" as I called it at least a couple times. It cools off your cocoa and is very tasty. I used vanilla this time, but can be done with other flavors. When I first tried it I think I used chocolate chip.
Another thing I did to warm me/us up inside...~One of my favorite things for breakfast lately is vanilla yogurt with Boysenberry-Almond granola. Well seeing as it was either rainy or just really chilly everyday this week there were a couple days I felt like oatmeal, but didn't have any so I put my Boysenberry granola with some milk in the microwave...
Baby J and I both loved it. We usually share breakfast in the morning after the kids go to school and daddy's at work.
Princess AJ& Gameboy both had a sick day this week, lucky for Princess AJ she was sick early on in the week (Tuesday). GameBoy was not so lucky and was sick yesterday, missing all the fun last-day-before-Winter break parties at school. I was also supposed to be at the school to see SuperDashMan receive an award and help out with parties.
Monday was Daddy's & Great Grandpa's b-day party...I didn't get many good pictures...I saved one even though it wasn't so great. Daddy got a super cool present from his parents that he's been playing with all week.
The schools holiday program was Wednesday (K-2nd graders)- SuperDashMan had been practicing a couple of songs for a while that his class along with another 1st grade class were going to sing together. So the morning of I find out from him that they're the first group to sing and the thing started at 8:15 am (right when I was taking Daddy to work). I was hoping that they would start really late so I could see it, but didn't happen. I went to his class when I finally got to the school and his teacher let me take a picture of the kids wearing their headbands they wore for the program. What a great teacher he has, to let a silly mom who missed the program come in and take a picture in the middle of class.
Today we took Daddy to work, because we needed the car to go get cousin pictures taken at the mall. Well by the time we got home, ate breakfast and got everyone ready (with some bumps along the way) we didn't pull out of the driveway till 9:59am (appointment time 10am). Needless to say I was a bit frustrated, because everyone was waiting for us. The pictures went all right, none of the group shots turned out well, because the kids weren't positioned right. Grandma got a couple of sheets- one of just the boys and one of just the girls.
Got info on Girl Scouting for Princess AJ...I was in it as a kid and had a great time. In one of the old shops in the mall they were doing gift wrap.
After the pictures we stopped at home to get a change of clothes and some snacks then we were off to the Orange County Model Engineer Company in Costa Mesa . They do free train rides every 3rd Sat. We went there for a b-day party in Feb. and the same person that had the party emailed and said that they also do pictures with Santa as part of the train ride this month. It was Baby J.'s 1st time riding the model train because when we were there before he couldn't ride because they said he had to be able to walk. He had a great time. Although for the Santa pic when I handed him to Santa he immediately started crying. They were passing out my favorite candycanes , so I was excited. It brought me back to my childhood. They're white with multi colors (cherry flavor), I'm not big on the traditional peppermint. My mom always got these kind.
It was a fun no stress time with the kids and it was too bad Daddy was at work. I told him when we picked him up I wanted it to be a new tradition and that maybe next year he could get Sat. off to go with us.

Also tonight my RS pres., that I now work with, and her husband dropped by and gave us cookies on a pretty platter with a card. Fun and heartwarming.

Other stuff- the big boys finally got new school shoes. Their old pairs lasted over a year. Then yesterday got new church shoes also. Sometimes I go crazy when I have six kids because I am babysitting, but right now that babysitting money is helping.
Also went to a PTA holdiay party Thursday and when I got there I found out that my MIL became president of a union and the people at the party were surprised I didn't know about it. CONGRATULATIONS!

As for my Heritage Makers business, I am still passionate about the business, but have not been putting in the effort I know I should. So it goes that the last minute workshop I planned for tonight really didn't go. All I did was email....I should know by now that that doesn't work.