December is flying by.

In the interest of time, which is at a premium right now, I thought I'd add a few of our activities each week until New years. I hope I can keep up this month.

The little kids have been getting out of school early everyday until Christmas break I thought it was going to kill me (I never seem to have enough time to get everything done) but we have had a fun day after school doing Christmas traditions, Monday we put the big Nativity scene up on the piano, Tuesday we made all our Christmas cookie dough and then bake half of it. YUMMY!Wednesday we made jam and a gingerbread house oh what fun!



I have come across thee best kit ever!! "Trader Joe's", the icing was great the candy was better and it didn't fall apart. We finally had success with a gingerbread house. As of today half the candy is gone. Colton has a sweet tooth and loves to climb on the counter.there are 2 cut out cookies left and 4 snicker doodles, everything else is gone. We are keeping the dentist in business. Merry Christmas!

Addison turned 13!

Well it's official Addie has turned 13. Here are a few of my favorites...

I had someone else take pictures

so here are a few of our results...we can never all be present or happy but I thought some of these were funny. It's always so hard to get that perfect picture for the Christmas card.

November recap...

What wouldn't be November without a little Thanksgiving Cheer we ate, we rested, we ate some more!


We braved the 34 degree temperatures and ran in a 5K turkey trot. We all finished and the kids did a 1/4 mile run. Thayne came in 3rd in his age group, Michael was 20th out of over 3000 people. It was really fun to start our day off running.







We also had some Cousin fun the week of thanksgiving, Crafts, movies, games, cooking and lots of eating.






We had a very cold, very fast swim meet It was fun but we think swimming should only be done in the summer time!