Santa Visit at the Botanical Gardens

We finally made it to see Santa, we decided to go

see the lights at the botanical gardens and visit with

Santa there. Matthew loves this, because they set

up trains every Christmas along with the lights. It

was a mild evening and no rain! Which lately we have

had quite a bit of it, but we stayed dry and not too

cold. Overall it was a really nice evening for our

family!

they do an orchid tree that is beyond words.

Reason for the Season

Speed Stacks!

This week we enjoyed Matthews Christmas play

at school and for the past few weeks we have been

watching him become consumed with Speed Stack

cups. For those of you that have not heard of these

it is twelve cups that the kids stack up in a series

and take them down in a certain order, being timed

of course. He has already gotten frustrated

and cracked a couple of them trying to be fast. I wish

he would work half as hard on his school work!

Day after Thanksgiving!

We headed out to get the real tree the day after

Thanksgiving as we do every year. It was cold

but the sun was shining so it was really perfect

tree picking weather. We also had Catfish with

us and he enjoyed seeing all the other dogs out

with people picking trees. We got home and

decorated the tree and the outside. We don't do

much outside, but we got it all done and are ready

for the holiday!

The beloved Tweetsie ornament!

Elizabeth helped Dad cut down the tree!

Matthew enjoying some hot chocolate!

Thanksgiving Day!

I finally had some time to put some pictures up from Thanksgiving.

We had a really nice quiet day this year. We started by putting

up one of our two trees. This is the "fancy" tree as the kids

call it. After that we headed over to my parents for

turkey and all the fixins. We put there tree up too and the

kids played some games and hung out. It was a nice quiet

day that ended with full stomachs and thankful hearts!

Matthews Thanksgiving Art work!