Do you think they were happy to be home?

This was after all day in the car and ten days away from home. I think they were happy.

Thanksgiving photos

Feeding kitties with Grandma:

Sharing toys with Grandpa:

Windows are a pull at every house we go to:

More fun with Grandparents

Walking with Grandma:

"Helping" Grandpa with the chickens:

Getting Grandpa

"It's Pretty"

That's what Cora says when she looks at our "tree":
I'm sure you must agree. Or we could go with Ray's description, "It looks like an upside-down 2-dimensional Christmas tree." There isn't really a good top to this "tree", that's why we put the big star and bow at the bottom. :-) The girls love it. This morning I heard the girls talking about the tree before they left their bedroom, then again in the living room, and again when they came upstairs. If Cora just catches a glimpse of it she will smile and say, "Pretty Christmas tree."

If you want an explanation: we didn't have time to go up on the mountain to look for a tree, so we went Christmas tree hunting in our front yard. It is a branch off our spruce tree.

As for the rest of our decorations, they aren't very extensive. We do have two two-year-olds in the house so I really don't feel that decorations are very safe. I did decide to decorate our stair railing (it's just so perfect for it that I can't resist). However, I decided not to do the same thing I've done in years past, which is this:
As much as I like the holly, I had too many visions of the girls eating plastic holly berries (maybe because they tried that last year).


So I tried this, instead:

The girls enjoy the stair's "necklaces", as they put it. I think it turned out quite nice.

I have a lot of pictures from Thanksgiving to put up, sometime. But since I like my true, random, procrastinating self to come through in my blog, I thought I'd skip ahead to Christmas and return to Thanksgiving when I get around to it. Who wants things in chronological order, anyway?

Pretty Girls

I was taking pictures of the girls before church one day, when we were all dressed up. I loved how these turned out, especially the one of Ruby.



















Then I decided to play with them a little bit, just for fun:

Oops...

My mom was trying to bribe the kids to stay still for a picture but accidentally spilled M&Ms all over the floor. This was the result:They were pretty still for this picture.