Advent Begins

This year we’re endeavoring to do a Jesse Tree. We participated in an ornament exchange so we have 52 ornaments to correspond with 52 days of readings about Jesus’ descendants and the story of his birth. We started off with The Creation of the World, followed by The Creation of Man.

Tinkerbell and "The Frog Prince"

I've always loved this girl's sleeping face

Silas, the family clown

Today I was building a "tent" for the kids to play in. Before I could get done Silas kept knocking it down. He's pretty funny.

Cakes

Lately my creative outlet has been cake decorating. (I've taken a couple classes recently.) Some people have asked to see pictures and I finally have enough to make a post out of it so here goes...

Birthday Boy

Happy First Birthday Silas! We love you!

September

Well, I've decided that if I wait around until I have time to catch up on posting our pictures from summer, that this blog will never be up to date (or even remotely so). So, I'm just going to skip ahead. There's been so much fun going on in September that I wanted to get it up here. Two mornings this week we saw hot air baloons floating by our house. It was fun and certainly brightened our mornings. Thanks Baloon Flyer Guys.

Here's where Josie instructed me to take a picture of her and Silas sitting back to back.

Here's where Josie dressed her and Silas up in "costumes." The costumes were actually shirts of mine which were taken out of the laundry pile. Silas looked pretty funny walking up and down the hall with my tank top around his neck.

It's always good to wear a bunny visor while watching a DVD. You know, just in case.

She continues to amuse us with things she decides to put on. You probably can't tell that those are Silas' pajama pants under the dress. They really completed the deflated inner tube, sunglasses, dress ensemble.