Getting ready for Christmas!

Every year I tell myself that this is the year that I am going to go all out with all of the cute Christmas decorations and all of the holiday baking and everything else that goes along with the holidays. Every year I end up deciding that it is just too much work!!! I think this year I could do it but it is too hard with Kaci being so little still, there is always next year I guess!

Even though I am not able to do a picture perfect Christmas, we have still had fun setting up the tree (let me tell you Colton sure is a helper!) and making sugar cookies and listening to all the fun Christmas music on the radio. Here are some pictures.

Colton and I making sugar cookies

Setting up the tree

We had a lot of fun, Kaci slept through most of it, but that made it so much easier!

Twice the Fun!

So having two kids is double everything, double the work, double the mess, quadruple the dirty diapers, and double the times that you wake up during the night! Two kids also double the smiles, double the snuggle time, double the kisses and special moments and also double the love every one feels for each other. Totally worth it!

After the initial week out of the hospital (AKA hell week) things have started to settle down and feel normal. The adjustment from one to two hasn’t been nearly as bad as I thought it would be, mostly because I have a wonderful husband who helps out so much and isn’t afraid to get up with one of this kids at night if I need him to, or do house work, or what ever needs to be done at the moment. Also Colton has been really good about the change and really loves his sister! Kaci is the only one in our family who gets kisses on the lips from him, Weldon and I are usually only allowed to kiss his head! Silly boy. Here are some pictures of what we have been up to lately.

I love having a little girl that I can get dresses up and put little bows in her hair!

All of the cousins at thanksgiving. Colton, Wyatt, Jayla, and Kaci. It makes me laugh to think that there are four grandkids, and half of them are mine!

Colton loves his sister!

These next ones are of us playing in the leaves. It’s not snowing, the spots are actually the flash reflecting off of all the dust that we stirred up by raking and jumping in the leaves. Colton had a ball, oh yeah and you can see our dog Kit in some of the pictures too, she is a Cocker Spaniel that we got about two months ago. She is really cute. She and Colton are buds.

We have sure had fun this past month. I love this time of year and am excited for us to put up the tree and do more things to make fun family memories!