A Very Sweet Christmas

Oh my garsh am I lucky...I am soooo lucky that I was able to have such a wonderful Christmas season!!  We welcomed our local family into our home for Christmas dinner...I was SOOO thankful for the family we were able to have...I am one lucky gal to have such wonderful in-laws!  And Colorado in-laws, that includes you...I am one blessed gal!!  I honestly don't think that someone could wish for better in laws!

Here are some snaps from the season...

 This is my FAVE pic of Mitchell and Pop Pop Larry!!

 

Hello Santa!

Mitchell and I started off the day at the local childrens library making salt dough ornaments (part 1)...

And then we took the boys, Mitchell and C, to one of the local Christmas weekend festivities where they welcomed Santa to town by horse drawn carriage.  Mitchell got a little one-on-one conversation with Mr. Claus himself...

 **tomorrow begins a whole new world of photography for me...I finally purchased my dream camera and will start using it, so the pictures on our blog should be mui fantastico!  I'm so super excited!

Christmas Tree Part II

When I woke up this morning and walked into our living room this is what I saw...

 He was just sitting there with his super-hero cape on, gazing at the tree.  So darn sweet...

Then, later in the day we made cupcakes.  I turned by back for one thousandth of a milli-second and this is what I saw when I turned around...

 Then, just before dinner, this is what we found...notice the newly trimmed hair...YAY!!

He was just laying there, still and with his eyes closed.  A rarity indeed-I hated to interrupt the moment with my flash.

Christmas Tree...Can We Keep You For Tomorrow??

Mitchell continues to use "for" in place of "with" as his main preposition...and who am I to stop him at this point???  It's all too cute and I know we will lose it soon, so I'm letting it go.  Maybe I should be the responsible mama and correct him, but I just can't.  I'm losing all grips on baby-isms and this is one of the last ones I feel we have with him-so I'll suck it up and claim responsibility if he has a problem in school.  Our Christmas tree was propped up last night-we started decking the halls the day after Thanksgiving due to my excitement, but I had NO IDEA how excited Mitchell would become when it actually came to decorating the tree.  Thank God for 4-year-olds!

The last pic is evidence of the ornamental-hangings of Mitchell...heavy on the bottom- and to be shifted by me in about 5 minutes since he's in bed.  But he was so excited about the tree he kept saying "I love our Christmas tree...can I hug it?  I love you mom and dad".  Over and over...repeatedly..."I love our Christmas tree, can we keep it for tomorrow?"

He must have told us a hundred times that he loved us and that he loved that tree...ahhhh, the bliss of seeing Christmas through the eyes of a kid!
We are so blessed!
*I can't wait to see what he's like tomorrow morning!!

Rider Park

Now that Mitchell is no longer going to daycare our days are quite different and we're still trying to figure out a routine.  I've started a list of activities to try and keep us busy.  But the last two weeks I've tried to take advantage of the good weather as much as possible since I know they are numbered.  Today we explored Rider Park a bit, taking a leisurely hike out to one of the several vistas within the park.  It was perfect.  I'm tellin ya what, you get this little boy in the woods and it's darn hard to get him out.  Today Reese's Peanut Butter Cups did the trick...thank you dear God, once again, for peanut butter.  Here's what we saw...

The walk to the hiking trail...or rather, run, in Mitchell's case.  As you can probably guess he did a face plant within the next hundred yards or so of this picture.

Approaching the vista...

 the view from the vista, of Route 87 and the Sportsmens Shooting Club...

I'm so happy to be back in PA...it's views like this one that I just treasure...

KA-POW!

a lovely little afternoon hike with my bestest little buddy.