Christmas Crafts

  One of the fun things about Christmas time is doing crafts.  Really, you can do crafts whenever, but Christmas time is the time to do Christmas crafts.  So maybe that deadline puts a little fire under me to get things done?  I don't know, but the girls loved all the painting we did this past Christmas. 

  I usually tried to do the paining during Ellie's nap time but I'm glad she was able to participate a few times.  Trying to figure out what to do with Becca took a little more effort.  We brought her walker to Albuquerque and she ended up taking a nap in it a couple times.  Both totally adorable and convenient. 

Fall is in the air

  My girls have never truly experienced fall; with the crisp air, the changing colors of leaves, the leaves falling, raking said leaves into piles, jumping into them, and then raking them back up again, and repeat!  So much fun that they have never experienced, until this past fall.  And they LOVED it!!  We did not have rakes, but the girls got creative and took the brooms outside to make leaf piles.