Our Christmas Tree

Hooray! Christmas is coming. I LOVE this time of year. Adelia and Tucker (and Andrew and I) were excited to get a Christmas tree. Adelia thought it was so funny that we put the tree on top of our car to take it home. She said it looked like our car had a hat on it. We had fun decorating, however Adelia and Tucker still haven't grasped the concept that decorating was a one-time thing. They are often moving ornaments around or playing with the candy canes. It is so much more fun to have Christmas with them though. They are the perfect age to get excited about everything but not disappointed about anything. So fun!

Post of Gratitude

I am so grateful for good people. I made the dumb mistake of leaving my wallet in a cart in a parking lot the other day. Yikes! Somebody turned it in and nothing happened (except I had a very stressful hour) but it was a good reminder for me of the good in people. It seems like we hear so much about the other side of people in the media and it was just the reminder I needed as Christmas is approaching and I want to love others more.

Tucker's Birthday

Tucker loved his birthday. We actually had two parties but I only have pictures from our small little family party. We love having him in our family. He is so much fun!

We couldn't find our birthday candles so we just used tealight ones. Tucker didn't actually blow out his candles, he asked Adelia to do it. However he was willing to pretend for a picture!

His Elmo Birthday Cake. We were pretty proud of it but it was really easy becuase we just used a Cricut Cake. The hardest part was that we bought all white fondant and had to drop-by-drop dye it the color we needed. It was fun!

It's a Boy!

So this post is long overdue but Baby #3 is on his way to our family. We are expecting him the first week in March. Adelia is very excited and always knew it was a boy. I think Tucker doesn't quite get it but he is used to us talking about and praying for our baby.

Halloween Pictures

Here is our pink princess and our Tigger. It's not the best picture of them but no one was in the mood for pictures so it was the best we could do at the time.

It was raining but we decided to go out anyway because Adelia was so excited to. Our kids thought it was the best thing ever! Tucker loved that everyone let him choose his own candy out of the bowl. We couldn't get him to wear his Tigger hat though.

Last minute Adelia and I decided to decorate our trunk for a "Trunk-orTreat" we were participating in. I was proud of our efforts since we had little time and just had to work with what we had. She loved playing with the ghosts before we hung them up.

Carving Pumpkins

Adelia loved every minute of this! She loved picking out her pumpkin and choosing what kind of face I carved. I think she was so excited because of a favorite Berenstain bears book she has where Papa bear carves a pumpkin.

At first Tucker thought we were going to eat the pumpkins. He still had fun but I think he lost a little interest when he realized that we were going to carve them.

Our finished product. The girls' pumpkin and the boys' pumpkin.

Our Work Day

We've had some yard projects that we wanted to do but couldn't do by ourselves. Thanks to wonderful family we got a lot done in one day. It was mostly clearing stuff out so now our yard is more of a blank slate to work with.

Hugo- lookin' cool!

Taking out the shed was the hardest project!

Adelia and Tucker were great helpers!

Nan accomplished a miracle with all of these weeds!