Twas 10 Nights Before Christmas!

Well - it would take a while to cover all the ground since the last time we posted. We've been busy and are enjoying the holiday season thoroughly! Cole finished the football season and is off and running with basketball now. I'll have to get some pictures of that soon! We also enjoy Thanksgiving with Hayley's "feast" at school and a visit from Rory, Rebekah, Kirk and Campbell. Cole also turned 8 on Thanksgiving - and enjoyed his favorite (brownies) for dessert instead of pie. Yum.

Since then, we've journeyed to cut our tree and decorate it, we've built our gingerbread house and Hayley and mom enjoyed going to the Nutcracker "ballet". (Notice quotes - this was not the Moscow ballet....)

We've still got some fun ahead of us before Christmas -- and we're enjoying every minute of it. Hope you are too!

Cole enjoyed being QB quite a bit this season!

A wonderful new princess dress courtesy of Uncle Doug and Aunt Laura last month. We also enjoyed seeing Amanda, Jon, Matthew and Aaron during a visit before they headed off overseas.

Enjoying our first (very minor) snow.

At the holiday feast at school.

The birthday brownie.

Cousins goofing around. Well...Kirk was doing most of the goofing here.

Our tree - and the 3 amigos....