December

This little one loves cucumbers! 

Our cute little one

Seeing Christmas lights

So fun to see Roslyn with her doll house.

Building with the marble works.

Merry Christmas morning.  It was a beautiful and simple Christmas. Sometimes I think I get just about as excited as they do for this day. So fun to have so much excitement to share together. 

All of our stockings were in order and finished this year...often I am close but usually I have something I need to fix and don't get around to, this year they were all complete. I even redid Alden's name so that it would be the same font as the other kids. Originally I had done it in cursive with rope...actually was probably more difficult and possibly even looked better but he said he'd prefer the print and to be like the other kids.

Great Wolf Lodge! We found a really great deal which made it so we could make this quick trip. It was fun to see what this was all about.

Michael's birthday! He often doesn't want a cake but something a little different.  This year he wanted a big cookie. I wondered if he would actually like this that much but he seemed quite happy with it.

Pool progress. We now have the gunite done.

Annual sleeping under the Christmas tree was a success! The kids all loved the Tara pj's and cookie decorating. We watched a Christmas movie and went out to see the lights around the town.  We thought we would just stay in our car but as we went around there were some places that looked like it would be fun to get out. I'm glad we did, it was fun to see all that some of these places had.

Watching the pool progress. It's been fun to see each step happen. This was the steel, preparing for the cement.

This was a fun little moment, that Roslyn was really sad over something, can't remember what it was at the time now, but Maebryn, who usually won't get off my lap, hurried down and kept giving Roslyn hugs and kisses. It was so sweet and neat to see how much she cares and loves her sister. (We often get to see everyone loving on her but since she is so little, she hasn't been able to show us how much love and care she has for each of her siblings.)

Rudolf the Red nose Reindeer craft for the letter R
 

Volcano from  kit we got from Uncle Austen for Christmas.