weekend recap...

Saturday morning, Curtis did a fabulous job of keeping the kiddos fed, busy & out of my hair...i had a wedding cake to finish up, then deliver/assemble...so he took the rugrats to the park for a good part of the morning...after i was home & my stress level was reduced considerably, it was my turn...Curt rode the sofa for some mindless Saturday TV & i took the kiddos outside...i needed the fresh air!

i started putting up Christmas lights & the girls got out their skates...Jaden hung out for a little while, but quickly complained about the cold & headed inside

after getting up the lights & yard decorations, i figured this weekend was the perfect time to start & finish up some more holiday to-do's

i began addressing our Christmas cards...while the kiddos put the final touches on their Santa letters...
(u can click the pics to enlarge)

at dark, we headed out to admire our hard work...it looked pretty good...

but, my favorite lights are still the ones we put inside...

then we decided to hop in the car & go check out some lights near where we live...oh how i drool when we pass houses like this!

we slow down the car, & oooh & ahhh as we pass by...holy Griswold, i wanna go all out like that one year!

then, we finally started working on our ornament craft for the kiddos' teachers & our fam/friends on Sunday...

haha, Jaden cracks me up when he paints...

ever since he was a baby, he's always hated to get messy...mostly his hands - he'd sit in his high chair & slam food in his mouth, then whine until i'd wipe off his hands...then he'd do it all over again - eat a handful, have mama wipe off his hands...

still to this day, if he drips something on his shirt or gets splashed by puddle & the bottoms of his pants get wet - even the smallest wet spot will be reason enough for him to have to go & change...& forget finger painting - that's just entirely too messy! he loves the sensory input of play-doh or clay - & the plus side is that it doesn't stick to your hands!

u're not gonna believe this, but he painted a total of 15 ornaments on his own...& didn't get one drop of paint on his fingers! ~lol~

even tho we got moving on a lot of our holiday tasks, we still didn't get to putting ornaments on that darn tree! it's up, lights are strung, even candy canes are hung (& quickly being eaten - by both kiddos & daddy ~wink~)...but for whatever reason, we keep forgetting to stop & put our ornaments on! that's definitely getting done this week - & i'll post some pics of the holiday decor going on in our home then :0)

the only other eventful thing that happened to us this weekend, was another lost tooth...yes, another one!

this makes number 5 for Corinn!
that piggy bank of her's is filling up with tooth fairy cash...soon, i'm gonna hit her up for a loan! ;0)

how was your weekend? get into anything exciting? did u finish up ur Christmas shopping?