The Spirit of Christmas fills our lives with Joy!

We enjoy so much pulling out all the decorations and our manger scene and talking about it as we set it up. Jake and Maddie helped decorate the tree alot more than past years and they really enjoyed it. It ended up being heavily decorated near the bottom of course, but I loved it...Made me smile each time I looked at it.

Over a year behind

...but I'm going to TRY to start blogging more...I'll go back to thanksgiving and try to catch up a little...So, here we go...We got a tiny bit of snow the day after thanksgiving and this was the snowman Jake built when he got back from his "vacation".

Dance class.

Maddie likes going to dance class, but she totally does her own thing. Forget that she is the ONLY one not doing the right dance. She has rhythm, she has style...She'll have the spotlight one way or another... I will get pictures of her next "performance".

Group effort

On sunday we went to the Brucemore Historical Mansion and took pictures at different locations around. It's a pretty place but we chose a SUPER hot day to do it. We about melted!

Haircut day...

We went to Kids & Company to get Jake and Maddies hair trimmed. They always have fun there. They have cool seats to sit on and they get to watch their choice of cartoon and get a treat when they're all done. Who wouldn't like it? They put beads in maddies hair and "style" her hair. I think her bangs were just a little too short, but her hair grows fairly quick...

Craft Show

Heres pictures of my booth at the craft show in Iowa City this past weekend. It went really well and was a lot of fun.

Jakes new outfit

Heres the latest outfit I made and Jake modeling it for me. He actually cooperated this time. Most of the time he doesn't want me taking his picture. I think the snowman guy helped make it easier for him.

Ready to play outside

We've actually had a few days that are sunny and in the 40's so I took advantage of them and took the kids out. I let them play out in front of the garage on their bikes and things. They like it.

Glad to be home

Maddie is glad to be back home and in her own bed. We had a nice visit in Arkansas but it was good to be get home...

more more more nov...

Heres the last of November pictures...sorry there was so many!!

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almost done adding pics...there was so many good ones!!

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