Christmas Fun

A few pics to help us remember some of the fun we had during the Christmas season this year.

Early in December the boys decorated our windows with Snowflakes.

And some others with snowmen.  I love them!  These will probably stay up all winter.

And, as is tradition, they made some new ornaments for the Christmas tree.

We also put some lights up on the house.  My photography skills are pretty dismal, especially at night, and our yard looks pretty ratty here (it is still a work in progress), but I am trying to preserve memories, so it is what it is.

So, of course I have to include a couple more pictures.

Last one of the house, I promise.

The kids all had their Christmas programs.  I only got these pictures of Tad and Drake, but they all did great!!

We also made our traditional sugar cone Christmas trees.  The boys look forward to this every year.

I also took some pictures of some of our decor inside, but realized that it is really similar to last year, so I deleted them.

We have had a good holiday season so far.  Merry Christmas!

A few reasons I love having little kids

I seriously love having little kids. Yes, teenagers and big kids are fun too - just a different kind of fun.  As I was going through some of my recent pictures today, I ran onto a few that reminded me of how much fun little kids are.

Only my little kids can entertain themselves for hours with their toys, and then, of course, ask me to take a picture every now and then.

Only my little kids wear fun little hats home that they made in kindergarten.

Only my little kids will decorate the tree up with their angry birds when they are tired of waiting for me to pull out the ornaments.  I kind of like this.  Maybe we should have left it this way.

Only my little kids will leave cute notes for the tooth fairy after she has forgotten to stop by for three nights.

Of course, my little kids do way more than this that makes me smile every day, but I don't have pictures of everything.

I'm seriously going to miss this stage when it is over.