New neighborhood this Christmas meant treats for everyone on the street! Mom was over for dinner and after that we got right to work and made homemade oreos! The kids had a blast helping.
Visiting Santa at the Christmas party
Tyson’s school program was super cute.
Lights at Thanksgiving point!
If we can make Festival of Trees work in our schedule, we go! The kids had a blast finding their favorite trees. Mom even joined us this year!
Tyson with a Star Wars tree
Brian with the Red Sox tree (and an unhappy Jeffrey)
Tyson with a Lego tree. All of the ornaments were made out of Legos. I promised him I’d get close up pictures of the ornaments so he could ‘copy’ them and make his own. (Which he did do!)
Andrew loved the trees and the reaction to the ‘Skeleton Tree’ is priceless!
Minions and some sort of marble ‘tree’
We pulled out the Christmas tree and learned that an entire strand of lights were out. It didn’t matter how much we tried to fix it, we couldn’t get it to work. I’ve been wanting a new tree for a few years so this was a great opportunity to just get a new one! Thanks to Costco we went that very evening, November 29th, and got a new tree. It is beautiful and so fun to have a new tree in our new house.
The kids were so excited we had to let them do some decorating that evening even though it was past their bedtime.
Jeffrey was pulling ornaments off the tree instead of putting them on. He LOVED the duck ornaments and wanted to just carry them around everywhere.
The magic of Christmas is always evident in my children’s eyes. This time of year is so special.
Our 2014 Family Christmas ornament
Andrew made a pilgrim hat at preschool and wanted me to take a picture of him wearing it. I love that he wants me to take pictures of him. Makes it easier on me to remember to try to capture all of these fun moments with these kids. Time just goes to fast…
We hosted Thanksgiving at our house with my mom this year. I’m so proud of Brian, he cooked the turkey (his first time) and did a wonderful job.
Had to get a picture of the platter of turkey!
The menu: Turkey, stuffing, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes, rolls and then yummy pie from Kneaders. The food took a little longer to cook than we thought so the kids got a little hungry. We let them dig into the rolls first.
After dinner we did what the Murrays are famous for…headed to the movie theater. If I remember right we saw The Penguins of Madagascar.
And this is my try at trying to help the kids (and myself) remember the true meaning of Thanksgiving. Counting our many, many blessings and being grateful. This is our grateful turkey. Every few days we got to write on a feather something that we are grateful for. Some of the feathers were funny and some were very sweet and touching. I will definitely do this grateful turkey again and again.
This little guy just melts my heart. I can’t believe he is 18 months old. Yay for the nursery at church though!
Isn’t his hair the best? I’m afraid to cut it. He’ll look like such a big boy instead of staying my baby forever.
He is still doing the snoring thing but the doctor doesn’t think we need to look into at this point. We will wait until he gets older and see if he grows into his adenoids.
Here are his stats from his doctor appointment.
Weight: 20 lbs 7.5 oz—6%
Length: 31.5 in—18%
Head Circumference: 48 cm—67%
