Catching the Holiday Spirit

With Mark being gone at work so much it's made it hard for me to get in the Holiday spirit, we had a great Thanksgiving with loving family but it just wasn't the same. The thought of getting ready for Christmas made me sad, we've always decorated together :( I am very grateful for Marks job but still it's an adjustment, thank goodness for facetime on our phones! Anyway, I decided I needed to put up our decorations to get myself excited for Christmas (Mark will be home for it :). I put up our Nativity scene, the few Christmas Village pieces I have and my snowmen. Than came the tree, Mark has always assembled the tree & strung the lights. I tried this year I failed I called Dad H who came & saved the day. I have always wanted a "fun" tree that was "me" so this year with some encouragement from my sister-in-law Kristi I did it. I bought new ornaments (shatter proof!), some burlap, dug out my ornaments that match the "theme" & poof you have our tree! Noah loves the lights every time he sees them he says "Whoa." He however also likes all the balls, if they stay on the tree I'll be very surprised...hence why I am so excited they are shatter proof. He was throwing them around tonight while I wrapped the burlap, he throw one and than say "oh boy" not sure where he gets his sayings but he sure keeps us laughing. I have to point out the angel on top, my Grandma S. crocheted that years ago & when she was cleaning out her Christmas stuff a few years back I snatched it up, it is beautiful and a very fun piece to have on our tree because it was made by loving hands. Anyway here is the best picture I could get. Merry Christmas everyone, I hope you have caught the Holiday spirit or you do soon!

Fallin' into fun!

Over the weekend while Mark was out of town for work my friend Sylvia, I & Noah traveled to Weston. We helped my Mom in he yard. Of course Noah had to help us.

After gathering the leaves we'd drag the tarp to the garden & empty it, Noah liked this ride for about 15 seconds. He wasn't a very big fan of all the leaves.

Last night we took advantage of a nice Halloween evening & did some trick or treating with Noah in our neighborhood. Lots of people told me Noah wouldn't understand what was going on. This was very wrong, he figured it out at house #1 going back up to our neighbor for a second piece while we chatted. By house #2 he was a pro! He'd knock, take the candy & head back down the side walk even if Mark & I weren't with him. He did not want to be held as we walked house to house, he had to walk like a big kid. Now the hard part of this post can you tell what his costume is? I was surprised how many people had never heard of the inspiration for his costume.

Thanks Mom H for making such an amazing costume!

Publish Post

Our Bishop's wife said we needed a family picture so she took one :)

Did you guess Max, King of the Wild Things

If not you better read the story, it's a classic!