It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas…

We began to get our house ready for the Christmas holiday this weekend.  Actually, we have for a few weeks now.  Friday night, we decorated our Christmas tree (we have had it up for about 2 weeks now).  The girls did a great job although Mike and I “re-decorated” the tree when they were done.  They still insisted on putting all of the ornaments in one spot.  We managed to decorate the who tree this year without Meredith breaking an ornament BUT she didn’t go all year without breaking one – she brought an ornament into the kitchen this evening to tell me she had lost “the hooker" and dropped the ornament and it shattered all over the floor.  I must say she is three for three.

Meredith was also very disappointed on Saturday morning.  As soon as she woke up, she went potty and went down to look at the tree and then came back upstairs to tell Mike and me that there were no presents.  Poor girl, she must have thought Santa Claus was coming that night.

 

We have our tree decorated in the girls’ favorite colors this year – not really on purpose but it worked out great (pink, blue, and green).

 

On Saturday, Mike decorated the outside of the house.  He bought new LED lights this year in white, red, and green, so we had to run some errands on Saturday night to hunt up some more lights.

Sunday, Mike and the girls made Chex Party mix for the Voakes family Thanksgiving Get-Together (this year at Saundra and Vince’s in WARM North Carolina). 

Mike also set up his winter village on Sunday.  I don’t have pictures because he finished after I had already finished down-loading the pictures off of the camera, will have to be a post another day.

Here are some of the girls holiday pictures, we had their pictures two weeks ago in order to beat the holiday rush.

 

This is Annalyse’s smile when we tell her to open her eyes more and not squint.  Mike says it is her botox look.

Have a great Thanksgiving.  We are off to warm North Carolina, should be about 70 degrees when we get there on Wednesday, and then cooling a little.  We should miss the snow that is supposed to arrive in Metro-Detroit on Wednesday.  Don’t eat too much and enjoy shopping on Black Friday – I hope Saundra is up for it this year!