Lights

This is a house near our neighborhood that you can see from I-95. They go above and beyond with the Christmas lights. Vera asked if we could make our house look like this. Uhhhh no. 

Also I wanted to document Vera's Christmas wishes this year. She would like Santa to bring her a towel and blanket. 

Kids these days are awfully demanding. 

snow!!

we've had a few days of snow already this year.  and we built this ugly little snowman on one of the days.  if we considered it would be in all the snow pictures, we might have tried harder, haha

all done, can we go inside? 

santa brunch

brunch with santa - family pic and high fives with santa.  maybe next year there will actually be lap sitting? 

christmas tree shopping

made a quick stop at marini's this year for the christmas tree.  good thing as the kids' attention spans towards any trees were nil. 

(don't worry that is not the tree at it's final decorated stage...)

bon fire

apparently vera's face was covered with her hot chocolate cup the entire bon fire...

thanksgiving dancing

dance party post-dinner at thanksgiving

thanksgiving

thanksgiving festivities at vera's cousin's house...

Eagles fans

Fly eagles fly... 

future stars

live performance in the basement

family pics

some more devon anne pics...

These boots were made for dancing

Cousins

Wish we saw these cousins more...

Taking care of leaves

At grandma's

halloween parade

our neighborhood has a halloween parade the weekend before halloween every year.  i took a skeleton and princess sophia there in their wagon.

 judging other kids' costumes....

our neighbor lula is also princess sophia!!

checking out the goodies we got