Thanksgiving

Travis helping Caleb put the star on our Christmas tree

Samuel "Hey, I wanted to put the star on top of the tree"

Caleb playing at the focus on the family play area

Little Chef

Caleb getting a nice massage, doesn't he look relaxed?

Caleb "I don't like being swung around in a red tub"

Joseph and his "Big" Sean

Austin and the delicious carmel cheesecake we made for Thanksgiving

This is how we go Christmas shopping with kids

Caleb playing at the focus on the family playland

Daddy and Caleb

This past week has been very busy.  We spent two days cooking for Thanksgiving, the girls helped a lot, but it was a lot of work.  The kids didn't have school all week, so it was a little crazy.  We had Joseph's "Big Brother" sean over for Thanksgiving, and we had way too much food.  But I haven't had to cook a dinner since, so that has been nice.  Caleb even tried to help.  He took my slices of sweet potatoes, and laid them out in a row on the counter, and then put a little bit of butter on each one (see picture above)  It was really cute, and he did all this without any help from anyone.  Friday I took Austin and Betsy to the Nutcracker Ballet, we had a good time and really enjoyed it, the girls loved getting hot chocolate during intermission too.  Joseph had a lot of homework to do over the break, so I helped him a lot with math homework.  We played lots of games.  Austin and Betsy went to a "Ball" their friend down the street invited them too, and had a lot of fun dancing.  We decorated for Christmas, and got a nice Christmas tree from Oregon through Costco, it is a very nice tree, and we love it.  We took the kids Christmas shopping, and blind folded them so they wouldn't know what their Christmas presents were.  It was quite the adventure.  We also went to a Focus on the Family playland area and the kids had a lot of fun there.  We went to Denver and went to the temple, and Travis and I took turns watching the kids.  Also, on Sunday after church, Joseph had a diarrhea accident in the kitchen, and then ran all the way upstairs to the bathroom to take a bath, and dripped stuff the whole way up.  It was a very gross mess to clean up, and we had to open up all the windows because it stunk up the house.  We had a very good holiday break, but I'm very excited for school this week.