Sorry :(

I know I've been slacking on the updates but it has been crazy here! Everyone is doing great. No one has been sick (knock on wood), Christmas is only 15 days away, and last but not least our Family birthday is only 9 days away!!!! We are so excited! I still haven't figured out how to put pictures on the blog but I'm still learning. Hopefully I can get some up showing off our BIG day.

Well for starters, you can see that our little miss has figured out that wherever she takes the stool she can CLIMB onto ANYTHING! She has given us a few scares but we just keep track of her as much as possible. Or we just hide the stools until one of us needs it. OK, OK until I need it :)

Our Thanksgiving was great. We had 2 dinners to attend. We were sooo stuffed...Even the kids didn't want to eat anymore. We made our first "hand" turkey and I think we had more fun then they did. We had lunch at memaw's first (my parents) then we had dinner at poppy's and gma's. I usually don't put up a tree until the first week or two of December but our first year with our kiddos, I couldn't wait. This time we did the DAY after thanksgiving!!!

Everyone took part of decorating the tree. We got shatterproof balls for Alissa's safety. Now if we could just keep her from pulling them off the tree. After it was all done we listened to Christmas music for as long as Justin could last then decided that the Grinch who stole Christmas would keep some attention. It was awesome! Every time that tree lights up, so do their little faces. I can't help it but it gets me every time. They are learning about the true meaning of Christmas. It has been a joy talking to them what is really happening. And our little Justin continues to sing Happy Birthday Jesus! But he expects a cake every time, too! The feeling is unexplainable. It's just what Our Lord wanted us to do......