Putting up the Christmas Tree

As promised...another update.













As is tradition, we put our tree up after Thanksgiving, usually that Friday or Saturday, and this year was no different. Nikki was really into the Christmas spirit, helping her Daddy put the actual tree together as well as helping me put the ornaments on. We cheated this year and only put one box of ornaments on, partially due to laziness and partially because we put the tree in the corner instead of in front of the window to decrease the number of angles the baby had to reach and rearrange the tree. Overall, it worked out well having it in the corner, though I do prefer it in the front window. As Emmi gets bigger and understands not to manhandle the tree, then I am sure it will migrate back to it's usual location.

Let's Pretend it's Fall once again...

Yup, I have really been slacking, infact I suck when it comes to keeping up with this thing as of recently. Let me explain why I have...just hear me out and then you decide. Basically since Thanksgiving my life has been a crazy whirlwind...Thanksgiving, Christmas shopping, putting up the Christmas Tree, Emmi's first birthday, Christmas cards, the Cruise, Christmas cookies, and finally Christmas itself. See, I told you it has been nuts!

So I am going to try to post a couple times a week until I get caught up, which means by the end of January you may get to see my Christmas pictures! So here we go!

I wanted to share this...Nikki's Halloween art project. She came up with this all on her own. It is a graveyard and she used empty crayon boxes (the ones from inside the big crayon box) as her gravestones. How clever is that?



I also took some photos of her playing in the leaves while Emmi was taking a nap that turned out really cute! Unfortunately, Emmi missed out on this experience because by the time I remembered the pile of leaves outside it was too dark for her to go outside and experiment with them. I will have to do better next year! So here is my beautiful girl having a great time playing in the leaves...







Oh, to be a kid again...can I skip work tomorrow?