Here Comes Santa Claus, Here Comes Santa Claus... NOT YET!

On our way to see Santa!

Muah!

The Christmas tree lighting

Since we couldn't see the real santa, we saw the inflatable one instead

It snowed in the back yard!

On a very cold (Brr...) and snowy night, we were on our way to see Santa in the park! His sleigh landed at Marion Square Park, so we ventured off to meet him in the snow! We were all bundled up - Santa, here we come! Unfortunately, the line was so long, it would have taken over 2 hours to see him, and just as long to get the free hot chocolate and popcorn. On the bright side, we did get to see an inflatable Santa (which was quite terrifying--probably much like the real thing when we eventually do get to meet the real Santa), some snow falling, and the lighting of the Christmas tree in the park. Our quest for Santa continues. To be continued...

Here Comes Santa Claus, Here Comes Santa Claus... NOT YET!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. Family, health, love, and FOOD! :) Special thanks to all our family -- we love you and we are thankful for YOU.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Sesame Street Live!

Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street? Sesame Street Live came to Dubuque, Iowa on the day before Thanksgiving. It was AWESOME! Addilyn kept saying, "Hi, Elmo!" "Hi, Abby!" "Hi, Cookie!" She has talked about it ever since. The look in her eyes when the characters first came out was worth the price of admission!

Sesame Street Live!

Arts & Crafts

Addilyn made her first turkey out of a pinecone! She also made some pilgrim hats made out of fudge stripes, a marshmallow, and chocolate. Thanksgiving must be coming soon!

Arts & Crafts

Tent Time

Tents are fun! Nothing better than eating celery and playing in tents! :)

Tent Time

Little Caesars Crazy Bread

Mmmm... CRAZY BREAD!

And speaking of crazy, check out this video of Geema ("G.G."). She has no idea that she is on speaker phone for all of us to hear her! MEEEEEOOOOOW! PUUUUURRRRRRR!

Little Caesars Crazy Bread

Tater Tots "Rock"

She's a prodigy! Okay, okay, so we told her what it said before we started the video...but, it's a good start!

Tater Tots "Rock"