Luke brought this list of sentences home from school he wrote last week using his spelling words. I thought what he wrote for the first sentence was so sweet I had to take a picture to remember it :). I love little rewards for being a parent like this. All of the things he wrote were really cute.

Christmastime is here!

I wasn't able to do any decorating for Christmas this year since I am still on bed rest, but Cory and the kids did a great job taking over! Here they are decorating the tree. The house looks great and very Christmasy! 

Milly got groomed and we decided she looks just like Clarice from the Rudolph movie. 

We bought this blow up Santa to go out in the yard. The other night Cory decided to blow it up inside to test it out and make sure we wanted to keep it. It was enormous! It just kept getting bigger and bigger. We were laughing so hard. The picture really doesn't do it justice. 

Luke loves the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas. It's his new favorite and he's watched it over and over and over. He loves the music too (he's recording the "This is Halloween" song here on the phone so he can watch it anytime). We were kind of hoping he would be done with it by Christmastime (he's been watching it since Halloween) because it is a little creepy and we'd rather be watching cozy Christmas shows, but he's still on it full board!

While Cory and Halle were at the Jazz game the other night Luke and I had some "Mommy/Lukey time" as he calls it. We started out watching Nightmare Before Christmas but then I talked him into trying another Christmas movie so we watched Miracle on 34th street. We cuddled up and drank hot chocolate and watched the movie. It was a fun night!