Getting Ready for Christmas

With Thanksgiving being on the latest possible day this year, the Christmas season was just that much shorter.  We tried to cram in as much as we could in the three and a half weeks we had between when we got home from Kansas and actual Christmas day.  It's been a good and busy month.  Here are some highlights.

Quarterly CF clinic visit--Finn's weight keeps going up and they remain happy with his size.  He cultured Staph again and continues to have a green nose and cough when off of antibiotics.  So, we are working on that.  He attempted PFT's for the first time this month but still needs some more practice to get a good number.  Overall, a quick and good visit.

This little girl just gets cuter by the day.

I made her a baked apple.  She made a mess and refused to taste it.

Decorating the tree on a day where Kai was home due to extreme cold.

Snuggles with daddy

Photo bombers!

See 2 teeth in there?  Her bottom left central incisor appeared on December 3rd and quickly sprung up.

Sooooooo close to crawling.  She can move around a room quite well through a series of rolling, shifting her weight from her hands to her bum, etc.  If she wants to get somewhere, she can.

And the Christmas tree was a favorite spot!

The ward Christmas party was a lot of fun. Finn ran screaming down the hall that he didn't want to see Santa.  Kai sat on Santa's lap and told him that he wanted "Mining for Gems" for Christmas.

Some warmer days meant a trip to the park.  Unless you're Finn.  Then it means two trips to the park.

Bree discoverd the fun of pulling out the grass.

Finn helped me make Christmas goodies to take to our friends.  I gave him a mallet and candy canes.....

And he had fun!

Sprinkles on the chocolate covered marshmallows

Plates of goodies to take to friends.  We made 6 double batches of ginger-molasses cookies, as well as chocolate covered marshmallows, peppermint bark, and some buckeyes (chocolate covered peanut butter balls--not pictured).

The frost on the tress was beautiful for several days!

The week of Christmas Reid had off from work.  So, we went over to the new Bass Pro Shop one morning.  The kids loved the fish tank.

In Santa's village Kai got to try his hand at duck shooting.  We chose not to see Santa, as we did that at the ward Christmas party but the line wasn't long.

A look at the main aisle of the store

So much getting ready.  We were finally ready for the big day!