Random Photos of Late

Claire is often the center of attention....and she loves it.
Grace said "It is VERY cold outside. Good thing I have my longneck on." AKA turtleneck.

Cute cheeks

Claire absolutely LOVES Luke and Grace, she is still a little wary of Liam, for good reason. Anyway, I love it when I find one of them playing with her. It is such a good feeling when your kids are getting along. Okay BLINK...now back to reality.

Visiting Santa

Well if I have to pay a Homeowners Fee at least I better get something good out of it. I absolutely LOVE that Santa comes to visit our development every year. It's small, intimate and there is yummy food. Our kids are a bit iffy when it comes to sitting on Santa's lap. But after Claire went, Liam said he wanted to, and so on. The kids had a blast and I got some memorable pictures.

Luke

Grace

Liam

Claire, who I thought would scream but I don't think she actually SAW Santa, I just handed her over and hurried and snapped the photo.

Cheesy Liam

Claire Gets Her Hair Done

I didn't even think you could put this many flowers in Claire's hair, being that she barely has any hair...but Grace managed. And Claire loved every second of it.
Beautiful girl.

Another Interesting Sleeping Spot...

Behind the bed in his "nest".

Christmas Tree Tradition

Put the breakable ones up HIGH, the plastic ones down LOW.

Paper is so much more fun than ornaments...at least until I can crawl!

Playing the french horn ornaments...one of the highlights of the night.

No one is ever smiling nicely all at the same time...that's what Photoshop is for, right?

The classic lower lip bite...all the kids have done it.

So every year on the Monday after Thanksgiving we put up our Christmas tree and decorations for Family Home Evening. This year I bit my lip and let Adam put up the tree without nagging ONCE. At least about the tree. Finally all the plugs were plugged in correctly and I must say I am loving our new tree that we got last year that already has the lights in it. One less thing to stress about, right? The kids of course loved putting up the ornaments, right now Claire can't crawl so we are fairly safe, I say fairly because we still have three other crazy kids. So now all the decorations are up and we are ready for Christmas! Oh wait...I still have to put up the garland and the lights. Another day, another day.... we hope you are having fun putting up your own holiday decorations!

Sleeping Under the....Desk?

Sleeping under the desk is WAY better than sleeping under the stars. At least he was asleep, which is saying something.