Christmas Eve

Max helping put our tree together!(Yes it is a fake tree)Grammy holding our nutcracker!Cecilia is excited!The HutchOur Christmas Table

Eating Chinese!All decked out for Mass

Dressed up for Mass!

The stockings and railing

Our Tree!!

Every year we decorate the house on Christmas Eve and it is always a really fun day! We end the day with Chinese and Christmas Eve Mass. And of course us kids always sing our special Christmas Eve dinner cheer:

Oh Yeah! Oh Yeah!
Tonight we eat Chinese!
Oh Yeah! Oh Yeah!
Besides it's Christmas Eve!
Oh Yeah! Oh Yeah!

It's so much fun,
We've just begun!
Oh Yeah! Oh Yeah!
OH YEAH!!!

So we had another successful Christmas Eve! (And a very fun one too!)

Our littlest elves!

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Third Week Of Advent

With the third week of Advent comes our out door Christmas lights. We don't decorate the inside of our house until Christmas Eve, but we put up our out door lights sometime during the third week of advent. And then today we got some more snow. Not much but still sends our household into a frenzy of excitement!

Not The House

Well early this morning our Realtor called and told us someone else got the Victorian. We are all sad and disappointed, but we all trust that God has the right house for us and that just wasn't it! Please keep praying that we find the right house soon! (It is rather squishy in our currant house!)
Even though we are sad about not getting what seemed like the "perfect" house, we all are at peace knowing that this wasn't the right one for us. One other hard thing is that we really just wanted to know that we had a house. Now we have to start the search all over again!

Rocky Ridge

Every year one of the local parks called Rocky Ridge, sets up thousands of Christmas lights. We don't get to go every year but this year our good friends the McLain's won tickets and so we went with their family last night. We brought hot chocolate and Cecilia made chocolate chip cookies that we ate with the hot coca. There are several different buildings that you walk through in between the outdoor light scenes. One building had a miniture train set up. It had about three or four different trains, a slowly spinning Christmas tree and a small waterfall. Another building had Santa, Max was the only one that really wanted to see Santa so I stayed behind with him in line and he told Santa what he wanted for christmas, a miniture train set and a stuffed animal.
We had our hot chocolate and cookies in yet another building that had tables and food booths. Benny was on my mom's back and through out the whole thing he had this look on his face that said, "what is going on?" It was very funny. John Paul kept trying to screw off light bulbs and got very frusterated that none came off. Each building had a ton a Christmas trees that different groups decorated. (Like one year the homeschooling group decorated a tree). It was a really fun night despite the cold weather.

Another Sugar Lover!

As you can see from the pics, Benedict is another sugar lover! Just give him Ice Cream or an Oreo and he is happy! (He is also obsessed with the stairs!)

St Lucy's Feast Day!

Every year on Dec. 13, (St Lucy's Feast Day), us kids get up early to get our beautiful breakfeast ready and then to wake up Daddy, Mom, and Grammy by coming into their rooms and singing "Christ Be Our Light". This year Cecilia and Rose were St Lucy. We always have coffee cake, eggs, orange juice, tea or coffee and fruit. Besides tea parties it is the only time we use the china! Pray for us St. Lucy!

And one more thing.....

Ben has finally started to talk! He has been saying, "da da" for a long time but two days ago he started to say, "what" and then yesterday he started saying, "and that" and "daddy"! It is so cute! We are all trying to get him to say, "ma ma" but he isn't saying it yet!

Random moments

These are just a bunch of random fall pictures. But since I never got around to posting them I just threw them all together. Included are a couple of pictures of a hay ride that we went on with a bunch of friends.

Thanksgiving!

We had a very nice thanksgiving at Aunt Lorrie and Uncle Fred's house! The first picture is of John, Grandad, Cecilia and me playing Rummy together. Then the last picture is Rose dressed up in the armor. She was extremely cute!
Anyway, our thanksgiving was wonderful!
Thanks Aunt Lorrie and Uncle Fred!

Grammy Moves In!

In the middle of November Grammy McDonnell moved in with us! It has been very enjoyable with her here! Welcome Grammy! The first picture is of us playing rummy the first night she was here! Then the last three pics are of her cloud bedroom!

November Birthdays!

At the beginning of November I celebrated my thirteenth birthday with the Anthony family. It was a lot of fun!
And then on November 25th Max had his sixth birthday. When he was at the store to find a theme, he asked for a Jesus birthday. And he wanted to get dressed up as a priest and say mass at the party.
His homily was very cute and included messages like, "Children should obey your parents... people need to be nice to other people," and stuff like that.

All in all we had two great birthdays!