Happy 4th Birthday Deefers!

All I Want for Christmas is the Stomach Flu

During the last 10 days, someone in this house has been sick with the stomach flu. First Allie, who missed two days of school. Then Meredith, who graciously waited till the weekend. And finally Jason and me. Poor Allie, she's afraid that Santa won't come to our house if someone is sick. But fortunately, it's only a 24 hour bug so we should be all better in time for the Big Guy's arrival tonight!!

The Kids Decorated Christmas Cookies

Let me rephrase that...Allie decorated Christmas cookies.

This is what Deefers did!

Can't Find the Cat?

Look under the tree!

This is where she spends most of her time these days!

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

We made the annual holiday trek out to Dan's tree farm to pick our Christmas tree today. It was a cold morning and with Meredith's zero tolerance of zero degree weather, we quickly found the tree...

...cut it down...

...rode the horses and headed home.

We picked a pretty big tree this year, maybe a little too big. As I write this, Meredith is upset because if she sits on the sofa, she can't see the TV. The tree is in the way!