How many more minutes till Christmas?????

Here is a Holly Jolly Matt on the side of the bonus room roof trying to get the Christmas lights to work. He will do anything for Cameron, but he never would put lights up when it was just the two of us. They look beautiful.
A little holiday cheer for the day...the top of my Stocking pole.....


And Cameron working diligently on Christmas activities. I swear, I can't keep the girl in crafts. We went to Michaels last weekend and bought a bunch of ceramics, cookie cutters, chocolate molds, activity kits, etc. $42 later we were ready to rock and roll. She is bugging me to death because she thinks that until every craft is done and on the tree, we shouldn't stop. I was hoping for more of a 12 days of Christmas approach. Atleast she's excited.


Today I took Cameron to the doctor for her second follow up to her ear infection. Luckily her second round of antibiotics did clear up the infection in her ear, but now she has a Urinary Tract Infection. Poor girl, we're on antibiotic #3 for the month of November/December. This antibiotic has been too hard on her stomach so she's had some upset tummy trouble this afternoon. It's very hard to watch your kids hurt, but she's resting right now and watching some Cailou Christmas so I've snuck upstairs to regroup and enjoy the quiet.

This past weekend my friend, Amber, a fellow Mom of a preschooler, hosted her annual ladies Christmas party. I look forward to good food, good games, drinks, and conversation all year. I won an absolutely beautiful wreath that her mother made. I just love how it looks on my door. Maybe I'll get a photo of that posted.

Friday of last weekend we went out for our friend, Cody's 30th birthday party. We went to Tepenyaki's Japanese Steak house in Boise, along with about 9 other couples. It was such a nice night out, and a total change of pace from our regular Olive Garden date night. I can't believe all of my friends are turning 30....has it really been that long? All of a sudden 30 just doesn't sound as old as it used to sound.

I think I am finally finished up on my christmas shopping. I am working on two teacher gifts for Cameron's teachers and a few white elephant gifts for our Christmas Eve at my parents house. I paid our looming tax bill today at the court house. Whoever made the due date December 20th seriously has to be the biggest scrooge ever.......but what can you do?

This weekend we are going to watch my sister perform at Northwest Nazarene University for ballet and then we are going with the cousins to see the Frog Princess. Cameron has been waiting and waiting for that one. Then she has a performance at church Sunday morning, she is a sheep in the Christmas song. Then Monday night is Cameron's ballet performance. Busy week and weekend ahead. I'm getting so excited for Christmas morning, can't hardly stand it.