We're ready for Christmas!

Yeah, I know that Thanksgiving is still a few days away, but we are ready for CHRISTMAS!! :) Last night in a fit of productiveness we got the tree down from the attic (no easy feat mind you!), put the tree up, decorated it, got the stockings up and changed our radio station in the house to the Christmas music one! Whoo hoo! Katherine is completely in love with the tree and lights. Although, she REALLY wants to take the ornaments off of the tree...we'll have to keep an eye on her. ;o) Luckily the breakable ornaments are up HIGH! I thought we'd have to worry about Colby...not! :) Now to make it feel really like Christmas I need to whip up a batch of homemade cinnamon buns...then it will truly be Christmas in the Hughes household. ;) I have a feeling that the "cold" weather we have had for the past week was a force in making it feel like Christmas down here. We were quite unhappy to have the heat on for a full week! I think we may have had the heat on for that long in the past three years COMBINED! What's up with all this cold weather?! Luckily today it is supposed to be back in the upper 70s and tomorrow it should hit 80! Thank goodness! We're grumpy when it gets down into the 60s and any lower makes up REALLY unhappy. :(

Well I would love to put up new pictures of Miss Katherine from last night, but unfortunately we brought the camera home and left the memory card at the shop...doh! So hopefully I will get the memory card back today and we can take pictures of Miss Katherine and the tree tonight. I do have a couple from last weekend that are posted below. Hope everyone is doing well!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Sitting in Daddy's chair

I LOVE the slide!

What Daddy and I did while Mommy was at a meeting...

Halloween Weekend

Happy Halloween to everyone! We had a pretty neat weekend. Friday we got Katherine all dressed up as her Pumpkin self and went outside to watch the trick or treaters and to give out candy. She was mesmerized by all the other kids. It was very cute. She also managed to figure out how to get a piece of candy of our bowls and to open the packaging...she had chocolate all over EVERYTHING! It was quite entertaining. There was one little guy about her size that came trick or treating in a motorized car/stroller thingy...she was quite taken with the little man. She wanted to give him her half eaten candy and then she wanted to give him a high five...very cute. After about an hour and a half of trick or treaters, Katherine was POOPED! So we headed inside for bed and bath. She was wiped out!

Saturday Daddy headed into work and Katherine and I work little worker bees around the house. We got the house cleaned and straightened, went to the grocery store and baked a pumpkin pie from scratch. We were very proud of our accomplishments by the time Daddy got home. Daddy did manage one surprise of his own. I was in the shower and had Katherine in the bathroom with me and I was just talking and singing to Katherine trying to keep her entertained while I took a super quick shower, so I finished, opened the curtain and said "Boo" to try and scare katherine...yeah...Christopher was standing there holding her and I had NO idea he had even come in. I think I lost about 10 years of my life. Katherine thought the whole thing was HILARIOUS, me on the other hand, was still trying to figure out how to breathe again! One bummer note on Saturday...BOTH of our teams lost close games. :( Not a good day for football.

Sunday we went to church and Sunday school and then headed to Grandma and Grandaddy Corell's for some planning for our business. Katherine of course was super excited to wear her pumpkin outfit again to show Grandma and Grandaddy Corell. She was pretty darn cute! We came home last night and due to the time change she was past ready for bed at 7pm! YIKES! We managed to keep her up until 8:15, so she did sleep until 7:25 this morning. Thank goodness! I was afraid she would get up around 5:30...that would not be a good thing for the Mommy!

Today was pretty crazy as we had a computer upgrade at the shop. Tomorrow looks to be just as crazy as I will be joining the masses waiting in line to vote...with a toddler...hopefully the people in line will have patience! :)

Have a great week!

Getting ready for Trick-Or-Treating!

Looking at the other kids

I found the chocolate!

Plopped down on the curb to eat my chocolate.