Christmas Decorating Day

When we arrived home on Monday, we went straight to decorating the house for Christmas. So, Keith and the kids put up the tree while I baked some sugar cookies (don't excited, it was store-bought dough. But really good!)
Then, the lights went up and then the ornaments.
Here's the finished product.
After all the decorating we ate the cookies, drank homemade (yes, homemade) hot chocolate, and watched A Charlie Brown Christmas. I just love the Christmas season!

Thanksgiving Down, Christmas To Go

We're back! Yeah! We've been gone since last Wednesday, being at Keith's parents house for Thanksgiving. We had a great time, but now we're ready for the Christmas season.

We left Wednesday and went straight to Keith's parents house. We actually spent Thanksgiving day at Keith's brother's house. They built a new house (still a work in progress), and wanted everyone there. It's looking really nice. Turned out that all the brother's and their families were there. Here they are:

So, we ate lots of good food:

And then we celebrated a mini Christmas between the brothers and kids:

So we left on Saturday and went to Keith's aunt's house because we had some meetings in the area that we had to go to. She was gracious enough to let us stay there. The kids had a blast. They adopted his aunt as Grand-Mom #2. We had a really nice visit with her. Here's the kids enjoying the sleeper sofa:

And to end with, here's a random picture of Keith wrestling with the kids.

My Niece

My 5 yr. old niece, Madison, is in the hospital with a bad case of pneumonia. She's been in there since Monday. So far she has not been responding to the medicines they've been giving her. They are giving her a stronger antibiotic now, but if she's not responding by tomorrow then they will call in a specialist. Can we, please, remember her when we talk to Him?

UPDATE: She's doing much better now and is slowly recovering.

Thanksgiving Project

The kids have been working on a little Thanksgiving study. We had a couple of projects planned with it, and today we finished one. The kids made paper bag Indian vests. The had a lot of fun doing them. Our next project is to make a posterboard with facts and pictures on it about Thanksgiving. I'll post pictures of those when they're done. So, here are the kids in their Indian outfits.
And here's Caleb relaxing in his little rocking chair after a hard day of playing.

Daddy's New Guitar

Mommy's Little Helper

Caleb decided to help me do the dishes this morning. How sweet. Of course he kept trying to drink out of the dirty glasses and pull the knives and forks out. Actually, I don't know how much of a help he really was. But he's learning. :) And yes, he was standing on the dishwasher door.

Celebrating Thanksgiving

We are going to Keith's parents house this year for Thanksgiving. We'll actually be celebrating the day at Keith's oldest brother's house. But I'm gonna let Nicole explain it because I think she did it very well on her blog.

I'll post about Thanksgiving when it actually happens.

First Tooth

Josiah's growing up. He's soo excited because he has lost his first tooth. Nevermind that the permanent tooth is already growing behind it. Oh, well. Braces here we come! But he sure is cute with that hole!