Holiday Fun in December

Wow I can't believe it's almost Santa time, really the month of December just flew by. The best thing about December is all of the fun things you can do together as a family and we did A LOT of them. I did my best keeping up with our Avent calendar and Jon helped me with moving our Elf Sam around the house.

Here's some pictures of our very fun filled month of December.

Paige drew our Elf Sam a picture

Harlow was so cute running around with this Santa hat.

While the two younger kids napped Paige painted some wooden ornaments for the tree.

When Aiden woke-up from nap it was time to put the star on top of the tree.

It was Aiden's first year getting to put the star on the tree, Paige had done it in previous years.

Our beautiful 9 ft tree

Ever since we went to Great Wolf Lodge the kids have begged to go back so we used some of the holiday funds and surprised them with a one-night visit.

Aiden making an ornament with the Frisco mom's group that I organize.

Paige's gingerbread themed party at school.

Decorating our gingerbread house.

Harlow was helping us clean the spatula...

Paige had begged for Clarice so we put more of the holiday funds to good use and took the kids for some fun at Build-A-Bear.

Aiden made a Snow Monster.

Downtown Frisco Christmas activities

I always love watching the hot-air balloons glow

Paige, Aiden and Jon all enjoyed some fun in the snow tubes.

I guess this will be my last Blog post until I share our Christmas with you so let me take this time to wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas.

Beautiful At Any Length - Paige's Haircut

Paige had been asking for awhile now to go get her haircut short so we decided to start our day with her haircut over at Sweet & Sassy. When Paige first mentioned getting her long Rapunzel like hair cut off I explained that she could donate her hair to someone who needed it. Paige loved that idea and was really enthusiastic to make a hair donation. On top of helping a great cause she can also get a Girl Scout badge to commemorate her good deed.

There are a couple different charities you can donate your hair to, after hearing about the Locks of Love program that makes hairpieces for children it seemed right for Paige's hair donation but Pantene also has a great hair donation program called Beautiful Lengths that makes hairpieces for women with cancer.

So 13" of hair was cut-off to make Paige's new super cute short hair style and is now a pony in a bag ready to be donated.

It was such a big exciting change, it's so different to see Paige with her short hair and I think it made her look a little younger (want to keep my oldest as young as I can for as long as I can).

Adorable outfit by Loves Me Not Clothing

...just after the rough cut for the donation

SO CUTE!

Tickles & Giggles at Bedtime

This past week I had a plan to keep my camera within reach and take pictures of the everyday stuff, this night in particular was bedtime.

It was when I looked at these pictures I realized how much fun we all have together in those last 30 minutes before bed.

tickles from daddy

tucking her little lamb into bed

giggles

running around

silly girl

So very very Thankful for it All

Adorable Indian shirts by EMTanner Designs. and sweet double ruffle pants are Eden's Bouquet

I think my title says it all, I am really so thankful for everything. My family and I were invited to spend Thanksgiving over at my good friend Amy's house, she was the perfect hostess from appetizers to pumpkin pies and everything in-between. The kids had a great time playing together and I brought a couple crafts to keep them entertained.

The most exciting part of the day was Harlow taking some serious consecutive steps, she had taken a few steps early in the week but on Thanksgiving she really started moving those sweet little feet.

Before we left the house I asked each of them to tell me what they were most thankful for (let's assume they are all thankful for family) ...

Aiden isn't much for pictures these days, get ready for when you see our Christmas card picture :)

In case you didn't know all of Harlow's sweet little shoes are by Joyfolie

Taking some serious steps on Thanksgiving