Founders Illumination

I took the kiddos to a Christmas lighting festival when they turned on all the lights in their English garden.

Sleepy Alex

Alex passed out 15 minutes prior to being done with his quite time under his train table.  He was completely out and I took some pictures because Brooke did the exact same thing (under her craft table) at the same age.  Sooo cute!

Decorating for Christmas

Our Friday after thanksgiving tradition is decorating the house for Christmas!  AJ was sleeping in because he worked the evening before but Brooke and I got the tree up so when he woke up it was ready to decorate.  We all had fun decorating the tree, the inside, and the outside of the house too!

Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  Alex started it off at 6:45 but luckily went back to his room until 7:30 when I got up with him, we had donuts for breakfast, played a lot in the playroom, and at 9:00 started watching the parade.  At 9:30 I started emptying the dishwasher *not so quietly* and finally Brooke and AJ came down to join us.  After enjoying some more of the parade we got dressed and went on our Thanksgiving Hike.  When we got home I put the parade back on so I could get some of the two hours of cooking done and Alex fell asleep with all the noise at 1pm.  He got a short nap before being woken for dinner at 2pm because AJ had to leave for work a little after 3pm.  After playing outside and enjoying the afternoon Brooke helped me decorate the playhouse.  It was a great thanksgiving!