trimmin' the tree and other happenings

 sunday night, after dinner, the kids and i decorated the tree.

my children are all getting so old.  it kinda makes me sad... even though we do have a lot of fun together.  I'm glad they still get excited for Christmas!

big daddy sang to us as we decorated.   i think he may get the most excited of all.  he's such a kid when it comes to the christmas season.  he loves everything about it and really goes all out on the gift giving, the food, the service and making sure the meaning of it all isn't lost.  we didn't get the lights up on the roof (because i wanted to spend that $$ on a fake tree this year) and every time we drive up to our home he is bummed.  oh well.   our  tree looks magnificent, by the way!

it's been a very busy week.  blogging has certainly taken a back seat.  hopefully next month i can get back in the blog posting and commenting groove... i miss that groove.

we are keeping our fingers crossed that  krista and ryan get here with the little ones sometime during the month.  it's just not the same without them.

i would love to post more political or maybe on the awesome blessing which we call a miracle that happened last week--- thoughts on sunday's lesson which covered parts of the book of revelation, or ted's tender moments spent with a dying friend.....i have tons of thoughts on other things besides family...but, oh, the time it takes...so lately i've just been doing what i can to document family happenings--which, let's be real, probably gets kinda boring to everyone else.