This post is for anyone who cares what our house looks like all decorated for Christmas. Admittedly, that is not very many. So I won’t do this to you every year, but it’s been fun to decorate this year in our new house!
This is our first year to have a “Pretty Tree” as my mom always calls them. The kids have their own tree downstairs that they get to decorate however they want.
Close
Closer
Really Close Up
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
It’s the calendar’s fault this is late. If there had been more days AFTER Thanksgiving, before the craziness of December actually started, I would have been able to get Thanksgiving blogged. But the calendar worked against me this year, so now you are getting it very late.
Grandma and Grandpa Hymas traveled over the river and through the woods to our house for the big day. Here’s Grandma reading one of our favorites…
The next day Libby helped get the food ready.
The next day we went to the Festival of Trees and the Boise City Tree Lighting.
The statue of Liberty
And that was Thanksgiving! We had a great visit with Rock’s parents. It was just over too quickly. Thanks again for driving so long to come see us!
After five months I am now officially happy with the outside of my house. So now I will post a picture of it on the blog. It was not cutting down the big ugly bushes in front that did it. It was not the paint job alone that did it. It was the paint job AND the shutters that did it. I have always wanted a house with shutters and now I’ve got one! Thanks to my wonderful husband for putting them up for me. And for putting up with my silly dreams.
In honor of Thanksgiving this week, here is a tribute to wings.
The first set of wings-I found this little person in my closet this week. 
Second Set of wings-made at Lego Club this week:
Third set of wings-made by Reagan: 
And the fourth set-not really wings, but close. It’s about a turkey….
The song is entitled, “Thanksgiving Dinner”. He made this up himself.
Enjoy YOUR turkey wings this week!
Here are some random happenings I wanted to share from the last couple months.
Cade is the crafty kid in our house. The other day at the library he saw this owl up on the wall and decided to go home and make it… without instructions.
I picked up some more origami books for him at the library and here are some of the cool creations he made.
I love fall! We have four of these babies in our back yard! I’ve always wanted a bright red tree in my yard! I know I will probably think differently after this fall.
We had our annual pumpkin cookie decorating. 
This was my new favorite Halloween décor. 
Our second year of Lego Club is off to a great start.
This was a pully the boys had to create to go fishing for the fish they made. Here’s Cade’s.
And lastly, some funnies from Liberty. The other day I picked her up after she’d been cuddling with a newly showered Daddy. When I smelled her I said, “You smell like, Daddy.” And she replied, “You mean I stink?”
And this one is from way back on Rock’s birthday. I forgot I’d written it down and didn’t get it into the blog post about his birthday, so here it is. When everyone was giving Rock their gifts, she said, “I have a gift for you too, but you'll have to go find it because I can't find it.”
Yesterday, after I had taken her on a “date” the night before, she woke up and said to me, “Mom, I want LOTS of dates and lots of birthdays!”
We recently finished up learning about the Pilgrims in our history curriculum and so even though the 392nd Thanksgiving is just around the corner, we decided to do one of our own now.
After the feast Reagan and I decided to make a Teepee with all the branches we cut down recently and some old painting tarps. It took us a good hour or more and I wish we had gotten some pictures of the process, but you’ll just have to live with the finished product. It looks more like a big monster than a teepee because I didn’t want to cut a hole in the middle of my painting tarps, but the kids have loved it.
Happy Thanksgiving Early!
