And the Christmas Crazy Sets in!

Ack - why is it that the Christmas season is not only the BEST time of year, but it is also the busiest time of year?  Amazon loves us, as we have fully embraced the free 2 shipping and decided to skip the malls this year!

We wanted to share this year's school pictures of the boys - Zachary is in grade 2 and is 8 years old.  Kaleb is in kindergarten and is a whopping 6 years old! :)

 

The weather has been nice, so we've been enjoying some time outdoors.  Kaleb enjoys badminton, so Amy and Kaleb were batting it back and forth while Karis and Zachary played catch.

Kaleb loves to play 'restaurant' and we found our chef dress-up costume for him to use while he served his mother whatever her heart desired.  If only supper was this easy to make! :)

Last weekend we headed out to the West Orange Trail to go on a bike ride, and enjoyed the playground as well.  Addison got on the slide, looked down at Amy and informed her "Mommy, picture!"  Apparently she has caught on to the fact that Amy takes pictures of her and was telling her that the slide was a worthwhile picture moment! :)

Karis and the kids were ahead on the trail, while Amy enjoyed a more leisurely pace!

The Cochrans (Jr and Sr) joined us on the ride, so it was a fun event!

One of the Z-families most favorite things to do each year is to go and look at the lights.  This particular house has their lights set to music, and it plays a well-known song on your car radio and the lights "dance" to the music.  So cool!

Last weekend we had the AHS Christmas party.  We always have the best of intentions of getting there early and then are already about halfway through the breakfast by the time that we arrive.  Both last year and this has been a disaster with parking, to the point where Karis mutters "this is NOT worth it!" but Kaleb so desperately wants to receive the gift, which is a free Disney ticket, that we suffer and make an appearance anyway.  It was fun to see friends once we DID park and get into the breakfast room!

 

Addi was tired out on the way home so took a 20 minute nap....just enough to wreck her nap for the afternoon.  Just GREAT!

 

 

 

Phrase of the week:  MOMMY!  PRETTY LIGHTS!  No Z-child has ever seen a Christmas light that they didn't like, and Addison is no different.  She yells house after house to Amy that those are pretty lights! 

 

She is also in a phase where she loves to sing all of the "Desus" songs at night as she goes to bed.  We always sing "Jesus Loves the Little Children" and then we change the word "Children" to our kids names.....and she will tell Amy which child the next stanza has to be about, and once she goes through our family, it moves on to Grandma, Kieran, Devin etc.  Anything to avoid going to bed!

 

Amy's mom has been watching Addison and the boys (when they're not in school) during the mornings while Jennifer is on maternity leave.  One morning this week, it was cold outside and Grandma did an errand after dropping off the boys at school and when they came out of the store, Addison informed her "Bama, cold...Addi freezin!"