After Thanksgiving, then its time to get ready for Christmas. That means shopping, decorating and trying to find a picture for the infamous Christmas card (which did not happen this year)! We did however find a fantastic Christmas tree at Home Depot. It was beautiful and every time we lit it up Amelia called it "Happy". She would come down in the morning and point to it and say, "Happy?" and that meant she wanted the lights turned on.
Here is our Christmas Tree!
Christmas also means baking and Amelia really enjoyed making sugar cookies this year.
She wanted every last drop off those beaters.
This picture is from October, but it makes me happy. I had to bring treats to an Activity Girls function and I made that Karo Syrup chex mix with the M&Ms. The lady was not home when I dropped it off so I left it on the porch with Amelia while I ran to get some paper out of the car to leave a note. When I came back, there was Amelia helping herself!
We have spent some fun times at the school behind our house. Amelia loves this red swing and the slides. She is quite fearless about slides!
She also likes attempting to get to the drinking fountain.
Here Amelia was helping Dad finish up the closet in the guest room. It is going to be great for storage of all kinds, but we promise to leave you some room for clothes when you visit.
We have enjoyed hiking the trails behind our house. Amelia is a good little hiker...albeit slow and easily distractable.
This was taken right before Thanksgiving. I took her to the store because I could not get her to go to sleep for her nap and of course she crashed in the car on the way, so here she is in Sam's Club modeling their child sleeping bags!
From Sydney: Wow she can really get into things. I think she has grown a foot since I have seen her. I can't wait to see you guys!
ReplyDeleteFrom Lisa: I love these pictures. It looks like you are having lots of fun in your new home. It seems like Alan always has a new project--how great is that!
The best is the grocery cart Linds. I love that you really did bundle her up. You always see kids in grocery carts sleeping in the most uncomfortable positions. You could have stayed at the store for hours with her snoozing peacefully in comfort. Your tree does look wonderful and all the lights looks wonderful despite Amelia chewing them up:) Glad to hear you are so happy since going back to Arizona after Christmas. We sure loved seeing you here.
ReplyDeleteI'll bet it was nice to have a place for your tree in your living room after those pesky relatives moved the entire contents of their house out of it!
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