Weekend

Our mall has a train. It appeared a couple weeks ago and we finally got around to riding it last weekend. J loved it.

All the pictures I took were blurry because the train was shaking so much.

25 Days of Family Fun - Day 2

Today our activity was to visit Santa. I was a little concerned that Jules would be afraid of him or something but he wasn't at all. He thought his beard was funny and aside from the normal 1 year old's don't like being held" deal he he fun. I thought these few pictures were really funny though... so I'm just sharing these tonight...

While I hung out with Santa and all the other kids getting pictures taken, Andrew took Julien to see the town tree lighting ceremony. He enjoyed all the singing and he even got a sticker from an elf. (He LOVES stickers) So it was a pretty fun night!

25 Days of Family Fun

December! And so it begins... We're going to try really hard to do some sort of holiday activity everyday until Christmas and I'm hoping to share them all.

I'll also be making a journal. Here is the page I created for it, in case you want to make one. I'm going to stick the pages in a 3 ring binder so we can look back and add to it every year.

(Just click on the page, right click to save and print on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.)

I'll fill each page with a little bit about what we did, any especially funny things Julien did that day and probably what book(s) we read. 

Also, holiday coloring pages and activities:
(Because some days just don't have time for a big activity...)

coloring page (Love this one)
coloring page (Elves)
coloring page (Christmas story)
connect the dots
maze
madlibs
madlib

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December 1, 2011
Seems like everyone went a little crazy putting up their decorations super early this year. We waited until the day after Thanksgiving, like always, because I was afraid I would get burnt out on all of it before we even hit December... but it's up and we started our holiday season with the Christmas parade. One thing I love about our loft is that most parades go down our street and we can watch from our window.

Julien wasn't too interested in it but he did sit in the window and watch it on and off. There were a ton of people out this year. The sidewalks were crowded for at least a half hour before the parade started. I think Julien's favorites this year were the bands.

Sweet Little Thing

Yesterday one of my best friends welcomed a new little bundle of cuteness into the world. I had completely forgotten how tiny new babies are and oh my goodness, she is SO tiny! And precious- and perfect- and I just love her...

Party in J's Tummy! | Photography Update

This was such a fun shoot. This little cutie just turned 1 and he was definitely happy about exploring... dirt, bugs, leaves and CAKE!

Such a sweet little family... and growing! Congratulations! Can't wait to meet the little miss;)