the most wonderful time of the year!

put on your coats and gloves - it's time for snow.

too bad we've only had one good storm so far. but don't worry - we're ready for when the snow does come.

our tree is up - but that's about it. we'll try to remedy that this weekend and turn our house into a Christmas wonderland. i know the hubbers is SO excited.

and what would Thanksgiving day be without a little lawn-mowering???

we hung Christmas lights on our house. and THANK GOODNESS the hubbers was safe and didn't fall off the roof.

"daddy - mabye you should come down from there"

"ladders, ladders....which ladder do i want to use?"

and it wouldn't be Christmastime without the Festival of Trees.....

...or our annual family gingerbread house making night!

i think more candy was eaten than used on the houses - but as the chubbers would say - yummies!

hard at work - good thing the hubbers has had all that extra practice on fixing up our house. :)

whitta has some roof problems - that quickly got fixed with a little newspaper stuffage

our finished house and tree.

and then you have to have each family take a picture with their gingerbread creations -

this is my favorite pic of the night - i LOVE granny-annie's facial expression in this - she is so excited to have jakey back amongst us!

and what would the holiday season be without sledding?!?!?