Grandpa & Ginny came to stay for a night so we got started on some Christmas decorating.
Kaitlyn found the Santa hats!
Tyson had the stairs/railings - he was such a big help :)
Grandpa reading Devin's tractor book
Over the weekend we did alot of baking - here were my two helpers for the peanut butter cookies.
This ultra-bright picture of Kaitlyn working on her Gingerbread House.
We got the Costco kit and supplemented with unwanted Halloween candy.
Tyson and Morgan helped Mommy make a train
We loaded that sucker up with candy.We also made a fire ring :)
The next day Tyson picked off anything he could and put it in the train car...so it doesn't look quite as good now :)
While Tyson was picking apart the train - the girls and I headed to the Montana Ballet's performance of The Nutcracker. Not really our sort of thing but the girls loved it. They brought their friends Madilyn & Hailey too.
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What's more Christmasy than making your wish list?
Kaitlyn's detailed list of what she's wanting...
Tyson cut out a few things from toy catalogs but really didn't have much interest...
Morgan however, well...here is Pages 1 & 2
3 & 4
5 & 6...
7 & 8...(love the $2k engagement ring:))
She's since added another page but we'll stop here.
Tyson doing some light reading before school one day.
Crummy picture of our outside decorations - lights and bows on the fence and their "Santa Stop Here" signs.
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Time for the tree!
Daddy took Morgan and Tyson to find us a wonderful tree to decorate.
Not many in between photos but we were trying to keep Devin from breaking all the ornaments.
Tyson was pretty into it this year.
This kid was miserable - we'll call him "The Grinch". He was un-decorating faster than we could put it up and well, he got in a little trouble.
The final product!
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Now we just have present buying, hiding, wrapping, packing/shipping; Cookie exchange; Manhattan Christmas Stroll, school Christmas programs; company year-end meetings/training and parties; pictures with Santa; classroom parties/gift exchange; three birthday parties; and we have to get packed to go to Thompson Falls....uuuggghhh Merry Christmas!
