Christmas Card Out-takes

No explanation needed, just my attempts at getting everyone in their holiday garb. It is quite an adventure to get 4 looking at the camera...and not crying. :)

Catching up...

I'm using the break to catch up on our holiday fun. We had a pretty quiet December in terms of picture worthy activities, but not in terms of actual volume. The kids have been very excited for Christmas and I think they all had a great day yesterday. I will post our Christmas pictures soon.

In the mean time, here are pictures from our post-Thanksgiving weekend traditions. We went downtown on Black Friday to do a little shopping and enjoy the fireworks and tree lighting. Then on Saturday we picked out and cut down a Christmas tree. It is probably one of my favorite weekends of the year. I love the start of the Christmas season.

The boys waiting for the tree lighting. We bought them light sabers from a street vendor to pass the time. I'm sure the people around us really appreciated the sword fights in the middle of a huge crowd. Lucky for us, they were both broken by the end of the next day.

Trying to pick out a tree and coral the kids. It felt like they were constantly running different directions!

"The" tree. I think we're blocking it, but its the one behind us. :)

Headed to the car...
Mmmm...hot chocolate!
Laney Beth decorating the tree. This was her first time to help. She took a lot of decorations off the tree too, but she had fun.

I will post more pictures in the next few days. I have some good outtakes from my attempt to get a picture for the Christmas card! Happy Holidays!