Thanksgiving and Beyond

11-22-12

Happy Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving morning, we went out to cut down the Christmas tree. It was a beautiful day for it!

 

We skipped out on turkey this year and opted for a Thanksgiving grill-out. We grilled burgers and had the usual picnic-y fare to go with it. (I made a turkey 10ish days before Thanksgiving, so we needed a little turkey break!)

11-23-12

We decorated our Christmas tree on Friday after Matt got home from work. As you can see, Daddy had little helping hands eager for some work to do!

See Charlie holding onto the water pitcher?

Watching very, very closely at Daddy's technique.

Now that Daddy's done watering the tree, Charlie takes it upon himself to inspect the water pitcher.

The tree is upright and standing tall! Do you see what Charlie is doing with the water pitcher at the bottom of the picture? Typical toddlers - seeing, exploring, playing with whatever they can get their hands on!

Hahaha! It's a tiny cup of hot chocolate ornament!

I have no idea how this happened! I found it while looking through the pictures and don't remember how they got so coordinated with their arms!

That night, Matt got Alanna's hair to stand up in a perfect point. I have never even tried this before, but apparently when Daddy does bath, it makes it on the agenda. More than one way to cook a goose, people!

DINOSAUR JAMMIES!!!

 11-24-12

Parade of Lights - Pueblo, CO

Starting temperature: 65 degrees. Ending temperature: 55 degrees. It was soooo nice out! Especially compared to last year where Alanna was teeny tiny and under several layers tucked into the stroller.

11-25-12

After church on Sunday, we spent from 10-12:30ish outside playing in the beautiful, beautiful weather. Soccer, picking up leaves, going for a walk, etc... So fun! This was the first time that we went for a walk with both kids in the wagon instead of the stroller. Alanna loved it!

I finally got serious about cleaning out the bottom of the armoir to use as toy storage instead of games. Yes, those are footprints on the back wall from one of our many moves, no doubt.

Countdown to Christmas jar! Matt helped me fold 28 cards into little boxes that I filled with slips of paper, each with a new activity/game/gift/thing for the day. We had a great time pulling out the day's number and doing whatever activity was listed in the box! It's definitely something we'll do in future years.

 11-27-12

Today's thing was to have hot chocolate and marshmallows!

11-28-12

This day's activity was to watch A Charlie Brown Christmas and have popcorn.

11-30-12

Making gingerbread houses (out of a clearanced spooky village Halloween kit I got 70% off!). Put a few candies on the house, put a few candies in the mouth. Repeat, repeat, repeat. We had a blast!



This is the last time Charlie was in sleeper-style jammies. It had to be documented!