making christmas

Doug had to clean up leaves before he could get decorations out and Peyton wanted to help.

Tressa working on a decoration for her house.

This past weekend all the gang showed up to give Doug a good start on the outdoor decorations and to do some painting on their own decorations.

As everyone was outside working Peyton declared that "Papa was Making Christmas!" It was really cute. The weather held up better than we had thought and they got alot done.



Moving the train to front Yard. had to roll/push it up alley etc.



  Nate worked on the roof of the train. Everyone else help get all the figures out and some lights up.
Poor Tressa was really have a time with her shoulder joints so she was the job foreman, telling everyone what to do.

Tressa in her foreman job

Jesse sporting the ever popular shorts and rubber boots look.

Ellie (2-months old) did her part by taking a 4 hrs nap

 I was the baby wrangler and cook. We had bacon, chicken and ham sandwiches for lunch and pulled pork and baked potatoes for dinner. Tried to keep it simple as 6 kids-(1-3yrs, 2-2yrs, 2-1yrs and a 2 month baby ) is pretty crazy.  Luckily all but Peyton took naps at various times. I even managed to whip up a batch of chocolate chews. It really was fun to spend the day with the grandkids! And since weather was nice we spent some of it outside.

Isabell & Madison had lots of fun on Tramp!



Brady- "AKA the FLASH!" Kept me on my toes whenever we let him outside.





Parker's mom must have thought a blizzard was blowing in. He did have fun.

Had to watch Brady by the pond. He just kept trying to walk right in it. No matter how many times I told him no or pulled him away. and "In charge Isabell "kept Peyton and Madison busy. One time they were playing in train and Madison wanted to come up and play too. She was having trouble climbing up and Isabell climbed down and grabbed her hand and tried to pull her up. was so fun to watch.

  Erica and Madison stay till 9:30pm to get some painting done.

Madison wanted to help paint too!

Erica working on a snowman for her house.

  Now Doug will work when he can to get more lights up. I have a few more things to do inside and then on to the 2 major things -trees and village.