christmas!

 monday morning NATE!! helped me carry the boxes up and we decorated while ellie napped.  seriously, nate was such a help!  he put all the ball holder on himself and decorated 60% of the tree.  we stuck with plastic balls this yr, i think ill keep my good glass balls in hiding for another 5 yrs or so...

anyways, it was fun to share this with him.  he was so into it and then carried the boxes down stairs for me and ran the vacuum because and i quote "every boy need to know how to run a vacuum you know" haha

 i took bens sock out and placed it on the fire place. i bawled.  he is and always be a part of our family.  he's my baby boy, hanging out with jesus right now

i did have to move the car to the wreath. i have 2 sets of sticky fingers around here :)

 advent!  a few weeks back i made a set for my canadian nieces and quinn :) hope you guys got them.  i finally finished nate's up yesterday.

each little bag has a candy, a christmas poem, joke, story etc, and a sticker for the count down tree (nate came up with that idea!)
 we stuck them on to card stock

 and voila!  advent in a bag!

i had to take a pic of nate's attitude calender.  seriously, this was the best idea ever!  so yeah, he's basically excellent during school.....notice i said school....hahaha

 we hung nate's advent beside quinn's pic on the b. board

 my little doll.  seriously. this child is such a joy to have!

 i was looking for her earlier. she was way too quiet and playing alone so i went in search of her. no worries! she was playing behind the couch. alone. in quiet, with her 2 dolls and a book

 my dolly with her doll. which is funny cause it's not her doll,  it's nates. she only has 1 doll

there! i am getting back on the blog wagon....now to remember to bring and take pics outside the house! hahaha

Posted by mel at 8:57 AM