Gingerbread House

The three of us attempted to build our first gingerbread house. It was really fun. Addison loved eating the frosting! I think we will make it a tradition. Maybe next year we will make homemade gingerbread instead of using a kit.

Santa Claus

We took Addison to see Santa tonight. When he asked her what she wanted, she said, "Doctor Barbie." It's a good thing that the doctor barbie ended up on the Santa pile when I was dividing the presents up. :) By the way, the picture is a picture of a picture (notice the bright flash spot). I didn't want to mess with hooking up the scanner.

Tree Hunting and Christmas Decorating

The first weekend in December, we all headed out to the tree farm to cut down our Christmas tree. It is always so much fun to search for the perfect one, but this time, we found it right away. It seemed to go by too quickly, so we looked around for about 20 more minutes to see if there was a better one. We did find another perfect one, so we went back and forth until we decided on the second one. After it was cut down, Nate and I tried to carry it out of the farm. We couldn't figure out why it was so heavy (we had to stop about 4 times to rest). The trees from years past were always a breeze to carry. Well, we found out why it was so heavy when we got home. It was about 2 feet taller than our ceiling! Oops! Oh well, at least we didn't pull a Griswald Christmas and bring a squirrel home.

"I found our tree!"


"I'm sure I can cut it down all by myself...I can do EVERYTHING all by MYSELF!"


"Wait a minute. I better get daddy to help."




"All done!"


(except for a little trimming)



Silly goofball




Hanging the first ornament


Putting on the tree topper


All bundled up to decorate outside. It doesn't look that cold out, but it was bitterly COLD!

November

Durning the month of November, Addison enjoyed dressing up in her Halloween costumes that she received from Granny Arlis. As Thanksgiving came closer, we decided to do a Turkey project. Addison was very proud of her turkey creation, and it became the centerpiece for our Thanksgiving dinner. She also started her wish list for Christmas by frequently scanning the JCpenny Christmas catalog, and she began swimming lessons.

Her precious turkey. She keeps asking to make more.


Katelyn came over to play dress up. Here, Addison is in the middle of a cheer jump.











Reading to her doll, Patty


Making her Christmas wish list