Put this on your to do list for next year...

My wonderful mom (aka Gigi) did a fantastic project for Colden and Brindley! She heard about this a few years ago and decided to work on it ALL year long! It was so worth it Mom...we LOVE it!

She collected books...mostly Chirstmas, but some "winter" and wrapped each one! She put numbers 1-24 on each one! So every night starting December 1, the kids open a new book! It is absolutely awesome!

Put that on your to-do list...if you start early in the year, it wouldn't so hard!

THANK YOU GIGI!

A Glimpse of Christmas

So many festivities!

We had a busy weekend with so many great festivities! It all started with Brian's work Holiday party! Lots of food, drinks & laughs!

We saw Santa today and Colden kept practicing what he was going to tell Santa he wanted! It was so cute...he asked if I would help him tell Santa just in case!

And lastly, our wonderful neighborhood, put on a Christmas festival...complete with a horse carriage ride and a live nativity scene! It was VERY cold! Nothing a little Starbucks wouldn't cure! ; )

All ready for a night out!

Waiting for Santa!

Enjoying a sweet treat from Santa!

Brindley and Mommy freezing on the horse carriage!A real camel!

MY FAVORITE TIME OF YEAR...

We have been busy decorating for the holidays! Garland, candles, lights, 2 trees, etc. all ready to go for Christmas 2009!

I bought the kids an artificial tree to decorate (we will be stringing popcorn and cranberries soon) & we went and cut down our tree today! That is always a fun experience!

After we put the lights & garland on our real tree, I really liked it...I didn't want to add any ornaments especially since the kids used a bunch...BUT I do have about 7 Starbucks ornaments...which suits us perfectly, so we have a "Starbucks" tree! WE LOVE IT!

Happy Holidays!

"This is the one!"

Kid's tree!

Country Starbucks Tree!Daddy reading our favorite story, "The Polar Express!"

Thanksgiving Feast

Today was Colden's Thanksgiving Feast at preschool! Brindley and I were able to go and her words were, "my turn to school..." meaning she really wants to go to school! Too cute!

We had a great little feast of turkey, ham, rolls, cheeses, fruit and desserts! They are darling, don't you think?

Group Shot

Singing a few songs

Brindley wearing Colden's turkey hat, thinking she's pretty cool to be having lunch at school!

Well...it hit us...or some of us...H1N1. Brian was diagnosed with it and recovered nicely with Tamiflu! Colden also had it and is slowly getting better (at least I'm praying about that). Brindley may be getting it...and I've stayed clear so far...only because I've been hanging out with these guys:

On a more exciting note...for those of you that know me well...this cup absolutely made my day this week! That's right...I get giddy over the RED Starbucks cup! Thank you Starbucks for making my day!

Happy Halloween!

We had many wonderful celebrations this Halloween! It's been a busy week, but filled with lots of fun and candy! = )

The kids had a blast this Halloween! We answered the door for a few neighbors, did some trick o' treating in our neighborhood, and then headed over to some wonderful friends for some more trick o' treating in their neighborhood!

The cake I made!

Pumpkin carving

Our little dalmation!

Our handsome firefighter!

Brindley, Jaxon, Joshua, & Colden~3 firefighters and their dalmation!