It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

It's the most wonderful time of the year....and it's looking like this in our house.

We got a real tree this year and I love it.

It is so fun coming home to a decorated home. 

The kids started to take ice skating lessons and have improved so much already.

Look who else showed up......he still can't get his landing right and crashed into our Gingerbread house.  He was a little late and didn't show up until this weekend.

Even though we have two kids that know the truth, all three still get excited to search for the Elf in the morning.  Evan laid out all the facts about Santa and the Elf and said it just can't be true (he said not all houses have a chimney, Santa is too big to fit down the chimney, Reindeers can't fly, he also said he knows a flight to Germany is over 10 hours and there is no way Santa can go all over the world in one night).  So, there you have it!

They had to search for this one for a long time.

This one was a fun one this morning.

We were promised snow this last weekend and once again nothing happened.  The weather forecast showed anywhere from 2-11inches last Wednesday and then we go zero.

This is so accurate for our weather forecast:

Last week the kids had their pizza box Spirit night again.  The kids decorated a pizza box at school and then we got to order pizza and pick it up inter boxes.  Such a fun fundraiser!

Evan's box

Hannah's box.....funny that both of them drew a pizza slice

We still have quite a few Christmas activities planned for the next couple of weeks.  We manage to have a lot of fun without all the stress.

Life Lately

Life Lately has included a lot of these kind of moments......
How does she look so old already?


Hannah had a High Tea Girl Scout event and had to dress in her best :)
She wanted her hair curled too.



I had Thanksgiving lunch with both Hannah and Evan at school, but only one of them wanted to take a picture with me....


We spent Thanksgiving in Branson with Scott's family.
The Turkey Trot has now become a tradition.
Can you see my fun turkey pants?

I ran a pretty good 5k, but did not beat my PR.


Our memory maker for this year was a trip to the Bass Pro Shops Aquarium.
We got to see the diving Santa


Cousin time is the best



A little cookie decorating



We went to an Italian buffet afterwards and Hannah was super excited about that.  Grandma took her there for her birthday and she was very excited to return.

We took a family picture......28 people and growing


Nora's doll got a new unicorn outfit and she is pretty proud of that


Last weekend I ran the Frosty 5k....in a snowman suit


It was a really warm day and the suit got pretty hot quickly.  We had a great time running it though.

I have a couple of kid quotes that I don't want to forget.
The kids school had STEAM night (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) a few weeks ago.  When Evan came home after school he asked if we can please go to smoke night at school.....it took me a little while to figure out what he meant:)

Nora was playing with handcuffs from her Halloween outfit and she handed them to me and said "Mom please arrest my leg".