It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas

Sugar cookies cut out, baked and frosted - check. Pretzels dipped in almond bark - check. Presents wrapped - check. Christmas picture ordered - check. Watched Elf - check. After this weekend it really does feel more like Christmas! And check out the best picture I've gotten of the boys by the Christmas tree -

We even made it to church today. The music was beautiful, but neither of us got a lot out of the service beyond that. Based on feedback from a few people at church today, you'll understand why. "How old are your boys? They sure are cute, but are they busy!" Another person thanked us for providing him with great entertainment during the service (as Kale kept trying to crawl under the pew to escape and played peek a boo with the people in the back pew). I spent over 1/2 of it walking around in the entry way with Kale. That kid can not sit still! Hopefully between now and Christmas we'll get some more snow. We can still see grass at our house. What a difference a year makes! Nolan and Kale are excited for Christmas. They love talking about Santa, looking at the tree, and of course the singing Elvis bear. Nolan loved putting sprinkles on the cookies, and dipped a few of the pretzels before deciding he would rather watch me do the dirty work.

On Saturday morning the boys and I took some friends to the airport. After we dropped them off we spent some time driving around the airport so Nolan could watch the planes. He was so excited! I ended up getting on a road that I wasn't sure if I was supposed to be driving on. It took us right to the runway where the Fex Ex and UPS planes take off and land. Nolan loved being that close!

Last weekend we were quite busy. We attended a surprise party Friday night, had our family church picture taken on Saturday, and followed that by attending Adam's work Christmas party. The surprise party was loads of fun, but I learned that it's getting a lot harder to stay up late, especially when our kids get up so early (3 hours of sleep is just not enough!). The church picture turned out fine. The best part was we had a chance to measure the boys outside of the preschool classrooms. Nolan is 37 inches tall, and Kale is close behind him at 32 inches! We have Kale's 15 month appointment on Wednesday, so we'll see what the official measurement is then. It was really nice to take the boys back to Jane's house on Monday. I wasn't sure how they would adapt after not being there for a week and a half, but they did great. Our boys are definitely creatures of routine!