Up goes the Tree!

 One of my favorite traditions has always been to put up the Christmas, as soon as Thanksgiving is over. Joe believes we could wait until the middle of December, but he is still a good sport and goes with me on this one. One thing that has been nice this year is Lindsay's excitement. She finds the same Christmas things we have always had but they are amazing this year! Matthew also gets excited about everything Lindsay is excited about. It has been fun and we are still 4 weeks from Christmas!

We had a good time putting up our Christmas tree and watching the Claymation Presentation. These have started to become a tradition to do at the same time. It will probably stick around through the years. I love having the decorations around and listening to the lights play Christmas tunes.

Thankful Tree

Every year we try to do activities to encourage being thankful. We have done different ones over the last few years. This year we did a tree. I made it rather large and taped it directly to the wall paper I don't much care for. All of the leaves on the tree are things we are thankful for. We did this daily through out the month. I think the Kids really enjoyed it and learned from it as well. It is also a great reminder!

And next up to take the place of our Thankful tree will be a beautiful Christmas Tree....

A day with Chris and Katrina

While in Greenwood for Thanksgiving, we took a day to spend with Chris and Katrina. Our First order of business was to visit Baker's Chocolates. They always have so many yummy treats! Then we moved on to the highlight of the day. The indoor play place at Mahoney State Park. We have always loved playing here, but we hadn't realized it had been so long since we last visited, so this was Matthew's first time! 

Daddy, Lindsay, and Matthew. Two more levels to the top!

Going to the big ball pit!

Ball Pit: his favorite place to be!

We spent lots of time in the ball pit as a family! 

Lindsay posing.

Lindsay posing closer up.

Here next is a series of flips done by Lindsay:

Uncle Chris,Aunt Katrina, Lindsay and Matthew.

We had lots of fun, and sorry for the lacking of pictures of the whole time, but we were having to much fun we didn't want to stop. We finally did have to stop after about 3 hours of non-stop fun, Matthew was getting very tired, Joe realized he wasn't so young anymore, and I had very sore knees from all the crawling(the bruises are just leaving)! Lindsay of course wanted to keep it up all day. 

To finish off the day we had a fun trip to Costco and a delicious treat from Red Mango. Nutella Frozen Yogurt = Amazing!

Thanks Chris and Katrina for spending your Saturday with us! 

Thanksgiving 2012

This year we were able to travel to Greenwood and have Thanksgiving with my side of the family. We had great traveling conditions and temperatures too.  

Playing outside at Grandma Baker's house. (I don't know why but every single picture of Lindsay, she is sticking out her tongue)

Having a good time!

Everyone had fun coloring the tablecloth!

Lindsay and Aunt Katie.

We had a great Thanksgiving Day. We made yummy food together, ate yummy food together and  remembered the things we are thankful for.
.....And  later that night the kids got to spend a lot of time with those they don't see to often. While, Joe and I were sent out to find everyone's black Friday lists!

Thanksgiving Homework

For preschool Lindsay brought home a feather to decorate for her class turkey. The feather was to be decorated creatively and to be a family activity.  So, we cut up some fabric scrapes and Lindsay and Dad made the button Turkey. I am not sure if it is cute or not. But it is creative and we had a blast making it for a family activity!

Close Up of Turkey

Whole Feather