It's beginning to look alot like Christmas...and it's not even Thanksgiving yet!!

Ok, I have to admit it. We're THOSE people who didn't even wait for Thanksgiving to pass before we decided to put up our tree. Thanksgiving is so late this year, and if we waited until after it's over we would only have 3 weeks to enjoy the tree.

So last night I was in Ft. Smith with my mom at Holiday Market. We got some really cute things, and mom even won a gift certificate for a massage, facial, and hair treatment...pretty great, huh? (We never win anything!) Since it ended at 10:30, I just stayed in the Fort while Jerry had the kids up here. He is such an amazing husband to agree to let me leave for the night with an 11 week old!! He and Anniston called me at 8:45 so I could join them in her "night-night prayer", and Treyson was already tucked in by then. Well, this morning I woke up at 7 to get all ready and head back up the hill. Anniston has gymnastics on Saturday mornings, so one of us has to keep Treyson while the other participates in gymnastics (she won't have a parent doing gymnastics with her once she's 3). So I call Jerry around 8:30 as I'm passing Fayetteville, just to make sure he's got Anniston up and getting her leotard on and such. Well, what do you know.....NO!!! The entire clan is STILL SLEEPING! What a bunch of lazy bums! We are so blessed to have children that sleep so well. So Jerry realizes the time at this point and had Anniston up and in her leotard by the time I got there....and of course I came home bearing gifts of Irish Maid Donuts (best Maple Bars EVER!).

Gymnastics was great...it was trampoline day, and that's always a hit with Anniston. She's starting to work on her "cartwheel" (which at 2 1/2 looks nothing like a cartwheel...oh well). Front rolls (somersaults) are a breeze, and she's even doing a front roll on the beam by herself (the fatter beam, but I'm still impressed nonetheless).

We get home and Treyson is about worn out after being up for an hour and a half (the 12 previous hours of sleep just didn't quite cut it), so he goes down for his first of 3 daily naps. Jerry was finishing up College Game Day (and we don't mess with him during that show....well, at least we try not to!). Anniston had stripped her clothes and was trotting around in her leotard covered with a "sparkly" dress, tiara, and water shoes. I was bored (don't get me wrong...I love some college football, but for some reason I just wasn't into laying around today), so I sweet talked Jerry into carrying down the Christmas tree...suprisingly, he agreed and brought it down.

We got it all fluffed up (Jerry didn't "fluff" his part very well....I think he's fired---wait a minute, did he do that on purpose????), and decorated with ornaments. Anniston was FLIPPING out....she was ecstatic that we had our tree up. Jerry makes her say "Merry Christmas" to get the lights turned on, so she's got that phrase down pat. She kept asking me all day, "When is Christmas?" This is going to be a long 5 weeks!! Then she asked me if she could be "Cinderella" for Christmas!! haha I couldn't help but laugh; but I had to go on to explain that we don't dress up for Christmas like we do for Halloween....too funny! Anyhow, we've also been talking about Santa Clause alot lately. She will tell you that Santa is in the North Pole right now making toys, but that he'll be at the mall soon so that we can go see him and tell him that we want pink, sparkly presents for Christmas!

After everything in the living room was cleaned up, the kids watched football with Dadoo in his recliner while I cleaned the refrigerator shelves (yeah, I really did....and can't remember the last time either). I took this picture of my kids (yes, Jerry's one too...and he'll agree) because they looked so sweet....and it shows off the Christmas tree!.

Then I decided to take a picture of the kids. I'm just in love with my babies' eyes. Both are blue...Anniston's are a light blue, and Treyson's are much deeper....oh, they both just make me melt!! I'm just slighly partial though...

Bath time was soon to follow, and Anniston looked at Treyson while he was laying in his little bath boat and in the most serious voice said, "Hey there, Buddy....don't pee pee in my bath tonight, ok?" I had to bite my lip so hard because she was so serious. Something about getting in that bath usually makes Treyson potty, so I guess she was going to try and have a little talk with him before he did it!! And by the way, the pudding and chili that was on Anniston's face in the previous picture got washed off!!

Well, that's about all for us on this Saturday. I'm sure I'll have pictures and stories to post next weekend after the holiday. Cousin Kinley's going to be in town most of the week, and we're keeping cousin Michael on Saturday evening....so I'm sure there will be some fun things to write about. OU is stomping Texas Tech right now. Boy am I sick of hearing "Boomer Sooner"....