Our Christmas Tree

Yesterday we got a real Christmas tree for the first time! This is the first year we are staying home for Christmas…so we decided to get a lovely Noble Fir. (Alex really wanted this kind and not a Douglas Fir.)

Here it is before we decorated it.

With just the lights.

And finally, with ornaments and the origami star  on top that Alex made four years ago.

It is just beautiful and it smells so good whenever we walk into the house. At first I thought it was a good tree – but I wasn’t sure it was great. After decorating it, however, I really love it and am glad Alex pushed for us to get it. Let the Christmas season begin! We are ready :)

Thanksgiving

My family came to visit for Thanksgiving! We had lots of fun and I have lots of pictures…pictures I took…pictures other people took…

Normally I am in very few pictures, since I am usually the one taking most of them. This week I am actually in a lot of them as lots of other people were here. That is a good thing…if I like the picture…and not so good for some other less flattering ones…but this one’s cute :) so it’s ok.

Me, Tyler, and my Mom…aka Grandma Beth.

Adam and Papa Dave.

Erik on David’s shoulders and Adam on Jeremy’s shoulders. I think my kids spent half the week on my brothers’ shoulders! Thanks for being such fun uncles you guys :)

more fun with uncles…

 

And now, for this segment of the program…cute pictures of Tyler…       sleeping…

awake…

on the swing-set swing for the first time…  and sleeping… (multitasking already)…

seeing if the hat Grandma made when he was born still fits…

 

trying on the new hat Grandma made for Uncle David before it is given to him…

 

 

and sitting with Daddy.

Finally here is the lovely apple pie Alex made. Thank you honey for doing apple and pumpkin pies, turkey, extra yummy mashed potatoes, cutting up my sweet potatoes for me, and various other things I can’t remember at the moment :) I really have it great on Thanksgiving. When I tell people that my family is coming to our house they say…oh, so you have to be the hosts and that must be stressful…actually I don’t have to do very much at all thanks to my great husband! And my Mom did a lot of baking and cooking too, so I really didn’t do much this year. I think the only thing I really did was cut up onion and celery for the stuffing and stir something or other. It was a good thing too because it seemed like all I could get done the day before Thanksgiving was hold the baby, take a shower, change diapers, feed children, clean up children, wipe snotty noses (Adam’s nose to be specific), and give the kids baths!

Adam the model

How funny is this pose? Head tilted slightly to the side, arms behind head, great smile…sooo funny!

This was the first time I put these overalls on Tyler…and they were too small already. They look okay in the picture when his legs are bent, but when he straightened out his legs they turned into capris big time! My child is growing too fast :)

Alex propped Tyler up like this, and he fell asleep.

Alex got Adam a new outfit and new pajamas when he went to Costco last week. Most of Adam's clothes are hand me downs from Erik, so it was fun to get new clothes. Both the items have dinosaurs on them…Adam says he is wearing his “dinosaur outfit…roarrrrr!”

Stegosaurus pajamas…or as Adam says “tegosaurus”.

Halloween

Adam the pumpkin.

Tyler the sweet pea.

Erik the bed bug. (He’s “Bounce” the bed bug from miss spider’s sunny patch friends.)

We had fun at Trunk or Treat on Friday…

And then did some Trick or Treating on our street on Saturday.

Erik liked to hand out candy to the kids that came to our house.

We stayed outside for awhile to enjoy our jack-o-lanterns.

Yummy candy!