Getting Ready for Christmas

I think I'm getting everyone in the Christmas spirit! I was singing "I want a hippopotamus for Christmas...only a hippopotamus will do!" all weekend. I caught both Hunter and Jason singing the song too!

Friday night I met Jason and Hunter in Fayetteville at Barnes and Noble. They were reading The Polar Express and having cookies and hot chocolate!

This weekend we went to the Botanical Gardens. Santa was there!! Hunter got to talk to Santa and ride a train. They had a huge Christmas train display that was really cool. We also got to walk around the Gardens. I can't wait to go back there in the spring! It will be so beautiful with all the flowers blooming.

We also went to the square in Fayetteville to look at the Christmas lights! Whoa! There were tons! It was FREEZING that night so we weren't there very long. Hunter did get to ride a camel though. AND we saw Santa's reindeer!! I hope they get enough food in their bellies because I'm ready for them to get to our house on Christmas Eve!!

Thanksgiving Break

I love working at a school! It means I get breaks for summer, Christmas, spring, and this week...Thanksgiving! I got to spend ALL week with my boys! We took on a huge project this week....taking the wallpaper off the walls in the kitchen and painting the walls. We didn't really think that project through since we were having Thanksgiving dinner at the house!! So, we were busy little workers! It took us 2 days to take the wallpaper off and 2 days painting. BUT, we worked so hard and got it finished just in time for Thanksgiving dinner! It looks so fabulous!!

We had a delicious dinner! Our Thanksgiving dinner menu: Turkey, ham, beans, stuffing, mashed potatoes, macaroni, sweet potatoes, salad, and rolls. Yumm!!

We also starting putting up Christmas decorations! It looks like the North Pole in the house! 7 trees are beautifully decorated at the house! We also decorated the outside of the house and it looks great!! I can't wait to spend Christmas with these boys!!

The "Family Tree" we put all of our decorations from childhood and meaningful decorations on it. It was my grandmothers tree that she had in her house.

Tree in the Living Room...well one of them!

Branson

I have a lot of blogging to catch up on...

We went to Branson for the weekend! We stayed at the Indoor Water Park/hotel. It was so much fun! At the water park, there is a HUGE bucket of water that dumps on everyone about every 5 minutes! It is so funny to watch everyone run to try to get water dumped on them...when they are playing in the water the whole time! It was also fun because there were lots of opportunities to dump/spray water all over kids!

We also went to the Christmas Dixie Stampede! We had great seats! Front row! It was the North Pole vs the South Pole...we were the North Pole and we lost!! We had so much fun though! We also got to see the horses that were in the show before it started.