Well, we finally put up our decorations! It was put off way too long for my liking (I like to start in mid-November) but at least it's done now. It would have been sooner except for we painted and plus with Zach all over the place, it makes it hard! Here's our tree!

Our family in ornaments
Our tree
The kids first Christmas ornaments

And I finally got to do our picture for the Christmas cards. I think it turned out pretty good! (Although I have to tell the truth, Zachary and Kayla are originals, I just cut and pasted Juliana out of another picture cause she had a goofy look on her face *blush*) It goes to show you that you can't trust any picture, LOL!


We also went to the Santa Claus parade here in town on Sunday. It was pretty fun, cold, but fun! Here's some pics of it.

The girls playing in the snow waiting for the parade to begin
Zachary trying to sit up in the snow (the snow suit wouldn't let him really bend)Laying back!Watching the parade go byJuliana covering her ears cause the fire trucks were too loud! LOL!
Me and my man!

Here's a cute picture of Zachary's new trick! He just sits there kneeling!

So tonight I put the kids to bed and didn't hear anything from Juliana for a while. I assumed she was asleep so I thought nothing of it. Well, Jeff just got home from a meeting and she comes walking out of her room, like this!

You can see it all caked on her forehead!The wall
Her bed

I now know not to leave any thing like diaper rash cream or vaseline in their room again!

Some pics!

Zachary is getting so big. He's got 8 teeth now (as of yesterday) and moving all over. He weighs 27.4lbs, and that's huge considering his 2 1/2 year old sister only weighs 27lbs! He's a tank! I have a feeling he'll be eating us out of house and home when he's a teenager. He's a sweet boy though, he gives awesome kisses! Here's a cute picture of a new outfit I bought for Christmas for him (except this is a size 18month, 26lbs and I had to exchange it for the 24month, 30lbs one since you can see the buttons are popping, LOL!)


We recently painted all of our upstairs. That was a big job. We painted for 4 days, and got it done. I didn't enjoy part of it though. 2 walls go downstairs so they are 2 stories high. Jeff held the ladder while I climbed to the top to cut in along the ceiling. I was glad when we were done.

Before

After (it doesn't look too much different but it's quite a bit darker)After

After
After

Kayla got her first report card, and it was very good! They don't do grades yet, it just says demonstrates all of the time, most of the time, starting to demonstrate or not yet. She got mostly all of the times and a few some of the times. We also met with her teacher and he had nothing but good things to say about her! He said that she's very smart, she doesn't hesitate to answer a question and even some of the SK's look at her like "how did she know that?". He said she's one of the first ones to grab the broom for clean up and go to the carpet for circle time. I was very proud of her! So when we were away we bought her a special toy! Here's her first school portrait!


We took the kids to see Santa the other day. It was pretty funny. They have a couch for all of them to sit on and Zach was on his lap. They all did well, except for Zachary kept grabbing Kayla's hair! Here's some pics!

Here's Zachary trying to get his sister
Trying to get all 3 looking is impossible!Trying again!Close up of ZacharyAnd here the elves told them to wave bye, Zach didn't care, and the girls were too shy!

We hope to put our Christmas stuff up this weekend. I would have loved to do it sooner but since we were painting I didn't want to do it until we were finished. And plus with Zachary all over the place I didn't want it all up too early. I'm planning on getting a picture of all 3 (if they cooperate, if not, Photshop!!) to send in my cards, so I'll post it here!