We love to clean! (Well..some of us do.)

Apparently, Katelyn's bored herself with making messes around the house and has moved onto cleaning up messes. Once Kendra taught her how to use a sponge there was no stopping her. Even after I got home from work she was finishing up the bathtub, spent a little time working on the floor and then polished off the toilet (for the second or third time). We're still working on her technique, but at least the desire is there. And it IS a free cleaning.

We even offered to pay her, though she wouldn't take our money. No, we didn't ask twice, and no, we're not going to twist her arm.

New hair do!

I got my hair cut and this picture doesn't do it justice! I don't even remember what the cut looks like because the style was so huge. It looked like a beehive from the 50's on top with the sides flipped out. I couldn't see because my bangs were in my face, but I figured it looks good enough to clean toilets, cause that's what I'm doin' today. And I don't have any make up on so please don't comment on my face. :)

Christmas Party with Santa

Katelyn has been talking for weeks about sitting on Santa's lap. She was the last child there to do it after some coaxing. For Christmas, she told Santa she wants "presents."

Take my picture

Thank you Grandma Mary for the beautiful dress.

So we must be doing too many blog posts, everytime we see an opportunity now we take a picture for the blog. Katelyn was catching on because we got her dressed on Sunday and commented on how cute she was and she said, "Okay, take my picture." Ha and Yikes at the same time.

Who's who?

Obviously the one with the pink bow is Katelyn, but seriously I think my kids do look alike at this age. Everyone says they look different, now yes, but when she was his age, I think they look very similar.

I've got a good man

Stephen came home from work early tonight and surprised me with flowers. Just because. I am so lucky to have such a great husband who is also such a great father. Kudo's to you Stephen. We love you.

We finally put up the tree!

We have been procrastinating putting up our Christmas decorations. For some reason, it doesn't feel like Christmas time. I knew I would regret it if we didn't decorate so finally we put up the tree last night. Katelyn's already taken down more ornaments (sometimes the same one over and over again) then we've put up. We reconsidered our decorating plan and moved all ornaments to the upper third of the tree. This worked well for about 30 minutes until Katelyn realized she can climb up on the arm of the couch and get any ornament she wants.