11 days! What?!?

 I can't believe it has been since Halloween that i put up some pictures!  We've been busy with the usual, but we've had a lot of fun.  For a while Claire was obsessed with sitting on the computer desk to watch her cartoons.  ok..goof.

 This is the mummy/mommy pumpkin that the girls made for halloween.

 We got some snow in November, it lasted about half the day in true Washington fashion.  The girls had fun playing in it while I was off shopping at the Christmas bazaars!

 On our way to Grandma's house

 too cute.

 Wylie's little sister turned one!  Yay for Phoebe!  we went to the party.  The kids decorated cupcakes, "helped" Phoebe blow out her candles and open her presents ( they were so helpful, we decided the big kids needed to do the pinata and leave Pheebs alone.

 violet being the boss and telling everyone how to do a pinata...she is of course an expert on the subject.

 V won a crown!  She wore it to church the next day :)

Claire helping another baby play with a toy.

 Violet and Wylie!

 We got a real Christmas tree this year!  We have always wanted one but for various reason we were never able to get one.  Claire really just wanted to go home and take a nap, she didn't care that we were picking up a tree, she was tired.

 Violet had a blast!  It was super loud so she wanted to go home as soon as we found the perfect one but she has been so excited about our tree and every morning she gets up and "wakes up" the tree.

 Claire loves to build stuff and work with her hands so she was super excited to help Peter assemble the stand and put the tree up.  I'm sure he appreciated her help!

 Just tightening some screws here and there.

 Violet loves to take Pictures with my phone.

 Did my roots that morning!  yay for freshly dyed hair!

 up and lit.

 found this on my new pepper grinder.   Well that narrows it down.

 Our Christmas wall

 The tree skirt that took me 8 hours to make!

 ooh and aah, people!  I worked hard on that.

There are only 11 days until Christmas!  I usually like to have everything done and wrapped by the 10th but I wasn't able to get it all done in time.  My new goal is by the end of Saturday to be done with all my Christmas stuff.  It's coming together just a few odds and ends to finish.  I'm looking forward to a relaxing Week before Christmas!

We went to the Montesano christmas parade this year.  I had gone when I was in school with one of my friends who had family there.  We had a great time.  The kids loved it and so did G&G Corier.  We are already planning what to do next year for the parade (it involves a thermos of hot cocoa...brr!)  These first 2 videos are of some cool houses we were standing next too.  The last one is the finale of the parade.  Very cool.  Anyways, Hope all is well, have a Merry Christmas!