White Christmas

I don't have to dream...

His favorite things

Isaac - "If you counted everything in the world, I think roller coasters would be my 50th favorite."

Me - "50th? What things do you like better?"

Isaac - "Legoland, Texas, war."

Me - "Why Texas?" (he's never been there)

Isaac - "It sounds peaceful and like a place girls wouldn't go very much."

This from the kid who puts war above roller coasters in his list of favorite things!

Silent Night-t-t-t

Levi's favorite song these days is Silent Night, thus that is the song the boys have chosen to sing for the Christmas program at church. After practicing it tonight, Wade gave Levi some tips on annunciation.

"Try singing it 'silent nigh-T, holy nigh-T...'"

Levi caught on right away and spent the next several minutes wandering the house singing "silent nigh-T, holy nigh-T, all is calm-T, all is brigh-T, round yon virgin, mother and child-T, holy infant so tender and mild-T..."

Christmassy

"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go...."

This is our lovely tree which I kinda feel bad about cutting down, I mean it was really a well-established tree, but it was well established at a tree farm which makes it more okay, sorta.

We are celebrating Advent with a basket this year rather than a wreath, since my wreaths in the past have been pretty much needle-less by Christmas Day. This one stays nice and fresh looking all season long!

Meet Lazarus, so named because this spring after I pruned him back to about six inches high and completely naked, Wade said, "that thing is dead." Behold, he lives! I don't know for certain, but I think this is his sixth Christmas with us and it's certainly his most beautiful (some years I haven't had him turn red because he wasn't in nice enough shape for me to want to draw attention to him). I think the pruning did him a lot of good.

Double Take

Levi has gotten pretty good at doing handstands and loves to show them off for anyone who will watch!