We drove home in the snow and arrived to find a nice inch or so on the ground. I wanted to go in and unpack, but the kids wanted to play in the snow, so we did! You can’t deny kids playtime in the first snowfall, can you?! We also took a walk up the street to see who had Christmas decorations up. I love holiday fun!

Drawing a doggie with a red ear and a brown ear.

When we came in Lex went right for the Lego’s and Eve for the easel. I think they are both glad to be home.

We had a lovely Thanksgiving in Franklin this year. On the way down we stopped to have holiday photos taken. I was going to just have pictures of the kids, but Lex wanted me with him (he was very clingy this weekend… I think I need to give him more attention!) so Alan and I joined them in the photos. They came out great and we ended up choosing a family photo for the holiday cards. Get excited! :)

Then we continued on to Franklin, driving on the year’s biggest travel day. It took awhile, but we finally got there! Then we relaxed, ate, laughed, colored, played with Hess trucks, and generally had a good ol’ family time for a few days. This morning we woke up to big fat snow flurries to accompany us on our drive home. We hit one slick area going up the mountian, but otherwise a lovely trip. Both kids even napped on the way there and the way home! Now, for the photos…

The kids colored while we waited for our pictures. There was a Santa at the store and Eve gave her picture to him. He said thank you and she was THRILLED!

The Thanksgiving table

Reading with Mema. Eve wanted a lot of that this weekend.

"Us" picture. Can you guess how many glasses of wine I've had here? :)

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Eve ate cranberry sauce for dinner. With a fork and a spoon. She refused to try anything else... until dessert, of course!

Lex also tasted the cranberry sauce (and nothing else) for dinner. I didn't see if he liked it or not. Then he tried pumpkin pie for dessert. Can you guess what he thought? :) Actually, I don't know if he liked it or not. I was at the other end of the table.

Place cards, new(ish) and old. Next year maybe Eve can make them.

Coloring and playing at the table. We did a lot of this. Cool Aunt Rosy has not one, but TWO iItems (iPod and iPhone, iBelieve) and she set them both up with games. Here Eve is playing and Lex is doing a color-by-number that I made for him. I love the happy faces.

Eve, at the "salon" with Aunt Rosy.

Rosy's turn at Eve's salon. (See that spot on her shirt? It's from my camera! It's in almost all of the pictures! Ahh... I hope I can fix it, otherwise I may be making an emergency call to Santa this year!)

Eve in the car, wearing Alan's hat.

We made it home today in time to play outside for awhile in the new snowfall. Fun, fun. Then unpack, dinner, baths, and bed. I was tired and cranky, but the well napped kids were great. Tomorrow we are all looking forward to a quiet day before it’s back to the work/school/playdate grind! :)

Alan got home early today so I went out to a WW meeting and a quick trip to JCPenney’s (new jeans!).  He gave them dinner and did bath time tonight.  It was a nice family evening.  After the kids were out of the tub he asked Eve if he could brush her hair.  Surprisingly she said yes!  Normally she prefers it messy.  At the same time Lex was feeling cuddly.  I walked in to find this, and immediately went for the camera :)

Aren't they cute! (actually, the original scene involved a naked Eve, but she put on the diaper so we could take a blog-worthy photo)

I think she loves her daddy :)

We have been going to the science museum a lot lately. The kids have a renewed interest, I think. I had a weird feeling the last time we went when I realized that my kids are almost too big for the “kid” section. There is an area sectioned off for ages 5 and under, which technically my kids still qualify for, but realistically they run around and bump into the babies and generally are just too big for that area. Sad.

Here they are playing with the science exhibits.

I forget what this thing is called but when you spin it around and look through the slots on the outside, you see a "movie" of your drawings. I made the little stick figure drawings (I'm an AWESOME artist!) and Lex loved watching it spin. Eve drew some pictures as well, but she didn't fully get the idea.

Watching out the elevator window never gets old!

I went shopping today. Alone. To stores other than the grocery store. It was exciting. However, it was also mayhem! We haven’t even made it to December yet and people are out in force! Of course it was Saturday afternoon, which isn’t really the best time for shopping, unless you are trying to buy little treats for little kids and want to go to the toy store and the candy store without said kids underfoot. Then Saturday is the best time to go while daddy plays at home with kiddies. Anyway, it was fun. I went to a bunch of stores and bought little things for the advent calendar I’m making for them. Now I’m going to turn of this computer and put Alan to work helping me put the project together :) Family fun!