It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Our house is feeling like Christmas - yay !!! I'm usually good about waiting until the day after Thanksgiving to get out all the Christmas stuff but I couldn't resist! 30 days is not enough time to celebrate the holiday that we spend all year looking forward to, so Saturday we got out the tree and all our decorations and Sunday night we decorated the tree while we listened to Celine Dion Christmas and had some apple cider. I've been playing non stop Christmas music from my favorite cd's - Celine Dion, Amy Grant, Mariah Carey, and the new David Archuleta (so good). And, I got my pine flavored candle burning non stop along with my pine flavored wallflower. And ammy and papa (my mom likes being a granny, but not being called one) sent Beck some Christmas books and darling PJ's - love them thank you! So I think we are set to go!! Maybe I should take bets on how long it takes for Beck to knock down the Christmas tree - I'll give a prize to whoever guesses closest

Beck's first haircut

Beck got his first haircut Friday night, he was starting to get bed-head and looked like a crazy scientist everytime he woke up so we knew it was time. He was darling while Dane was cutting his hair, when he wasn't trying to grab the clippers he would hunch over, close his eyes, and flinch everytime he would feel the clippers on his head. I thought that if I fed him while Dane cut it would distract him, but that didn't do anything except make a bigger mess for me to clean up.

Brandon's visit

My big brother came out to visit this week. He was only here for 2 days so we did Monticello, Williamsburg, and Yorktown. We hadn't been to Yorktown before and I loved it, it's a super cute little town right on the water. It was fun to catch up with Brandon he always entertains me by telling be about all the drama in his life, unfortunately for me he didn't have any big drama going on right now to tell me about but he did have some good stories still.

Halloween - Roar!!

We LOVE Halloween and it's so much more fun now that I have a little guy to dress up and who earns me a bunch of candy from trick-or-treating. We carved our pumpkins the night before which is one of Dane's all time favorite things in this world. He does all the pumpkin gutting because even though I LOVE pumpkin scented anything I think the real smell of pumkin is the sickest thing in the world. Beck of course enjoyed eating the pumpkin while Dane got them ready to carve. And I accomplished something I didn't think was possible...for the first time(and probably the last) Dane complimented my pumpkin carving skills...he is usually disgusted with me because I don't put nearly as much effort into it as he thinks I should.

Is this the cutest lion you have ever seen?? I couldn't stop taking pictures!! He actually did a pretty good job at wearing his costume for most of the night, and it was his favorite stuffed animal to play with when he wasn't wearing it.

Here's some of the trick-or-treating gang we went with. Rachel with her cute girls Lydia and Eliza and Lissa with her darling little ballerina Kylea.

Our friends shared their wagon with Beck while we trick-or-treated and this was his expression the entire time, he looked completely shocked and was holding on to the sides for dear life.

While we were trick-0r-treating he hacked into one of the twix bars and got it all over and was ticked when we took it away, but we made it up to him and gave him some chocolate when we got home and he was out of his costume and he devoured it in no time (he takes after his mom!). After we put Beck to bed I enjoyed almost all the rest of his candy while me and Dane watched my favorite Halloween movie Practical Magic, it's tradition for me and my mother-in-law Myrna to watch it together every year so it was sad to watch it without her but Dane's a good sport at watching my girly movies with me.

Zoo