and my cute Claire. She is getting faster at army crawling and can get almost anywhere now. It's nice to have our family room down a step from the kitchen so she stays out of the kitchen. She just lays there and screams for us.

It took me a week but I think I finally finished decorating the house. We put up Christmas lights on the outside all along the garage and we put up our three little trees in the window. This year we decorated them with pictures of past Christmas's

Dec. 9. Today after school we are going shopping and out to dinner. It seems like we are doing a lot of little shopping here and there. I hope that we can finish the shopping up soon so we can go and do the other fun holiday things and I will be done with the dreaded post office.

Dec. 8. We went to get our cousin gifts. Hopefully we can get them out fast so they will actually get there before Christmas. We shopped at Toys R Us with all the other crazy people out there. As long as the kids get 10 minutes to play with what they want they are good shoppers there.

Dec. 7. We started a class again at the Nature Center. So we went to that this day. That night we watched a Christmas show as a family. Thank goodness fo ABC Family channel and their Christmas specials.

Dec. 6. The kids woke up to their shoes being filled with candy. They were very excited eventhough the night before they were little terrors and didn't really deserve the candy. I guess we are just going to be on a sugar high for all of December. Hopefully January will be better.

After school we went to Macy's and mailed our letters to Santa. They have this cute mailbox and I used my smartphone to take this picture and it added Virginia. The whole little theme is from that book, but I don't know the story. The kids were so excited to mail the letters. They had cute stationary there and they wrote a letter for Claire saying she needed a baby toy.

Dec. 5 Our family night treat. Peanut butter chocolate balls. Some had sprinkles on them. they were delicious.