He was here!

We are so very, very lucky to know our friends Mary & Robin.  Not only are they super wonderful, caring people, they also know Santa.  The REAL Santa!  And for the second year in a row we invited Santa to join us for a little party.

I'll admit . . . I have a hard time saying no.  Or more like not including EVERYONE.  So I was freaking a little bit when every.single.person we invited rsvped YES for this party.  Our house isn't that big.  And there were over TWENTY little people coming.  I was sweating a bit!  But thankfully, we all fit in the house, everyone had a fun time, the littles all played well and everyone LOVED spending quality time with the Big Man.  :)




And of course, it wouldn't be a party at our house without lots of food and drink (yes, even adult drinks - our coping mechanism - at 10am!!). 

I cannot make this stuff up . . .

In preparation of for our special visit from Santa tomorrow, I asked B&K last night what they wanted to ask Santa for when he is here:

Let me explain . . . Kendyll has a birthday party to go to on Sunday.  And I bought a color wonder set with special markers & there is a picture of "Tangled" on the front.  We had a code 4 tantrum when Kendyll realized it wasn't for her and therefore it became something she wanted to ask Santa for.

Bennett came out of left field with his request.  We saw a commercial for this new toy called Doggie Doo, that is literally a toy dog you feed & it poops.  Tim & I thought it seemed like a total SNL skit, but it is real toy.  And we only saw the commercial once, but apparently it made quite an impression on Bdude.  Hilarious!!

Oh right, it is December now . . .

Yeah, we’re way past Thanksgiving, huh? It was nice. We were sick. Our family who was coming to visit was sick (so they couldn’t come). Black Friday shopping was low key. Actually, that was the theme of the whole weekend. And in the end {with the exception of the sickness – oh which included our first cases of pink eye . . . for Kendyll and ME!}, it was actually quite nice.

And now it is December. After driving around in the car at night, watching our neighbor’s holiday lights go up and listening to chimes of “wish I had Christmas lights on my house” from the B&K peanut gallery in the backseat, we had lights put up on our house last week. And our tree is up. And Boyd, our elf (or dwarf, as Kendyll has taken to calling him) has come to hang out with us until Christmas. B&K are really enjoying going to find “the dwarf” every morning; however the bribe of “Boyd is watching you” hasn’t really seemed to have the same effect as last year. ;)

We are preparing for our holiday party with Santa this weekend. And I may or may not have inflated our guest list a bit. This should be interesting. And I know it will be fun. There seem to be lots of holiday gatherings and events going on and the time is flying by. We tried to go see the lights at the zoo last weekend, but it was a total cluster bomb of people (seriously. So, so, so bad). My holiday cards have been ordered and I hope to knock out the rest of the holiday shopping next when on a vacation day. I feel like I need another vacation. Whew.

Other than that, there really isn’t much going on. I’m sorry things are so boring right now. I haven’t taken my camera out for pictures in ages, but I do have a couple more cute ones from our session with Susan Miller last month. Enjoy!