week 10

Week 10 and they are posing in the rain. Thankfully that part of the porch is covered or I'm sure I wouldn't have been able to get them outside. Special treat this week - that cute dog of ours just had to get in the picture. We had a couple of outtakes on this one - trying to stop it from looking like Ketchup had eaten Kaedo's head! We finally got a good one and when I looked at it, Gnomee wasn't even in the picture! Needless to say, we had to take another. Kaedo's hair looks brutal but they are both so cute that it doesn't matter.

We are slowly getting organized for Christmas. My desk downstairs has quite a collection of gifts. Many of them small, but all purchased with care. I am looking forward to having a wrapping party with the boys as they have to wrap their own. May use bags for the adults, but the girlies will all get paper. Ripping it off is almost as fun as receiving the gift.

As of now, all our Secret Santa gifts have been bought and the boys have bought for each other and Kaedo has shopped for Craig. It is amazing what even a year does. The boys weren't so panicked this year about staying right to the "mandatory" limit. In all cases they went over and were happy to do so. For those who don't know - the boys spend $20 on each other, completely of their own money money. They also out of their own money spend $10 each on Craig and I and $5 for their Secret Santa gift. Many years we match the $10 and they go in together but this year they seem to have things well in hand. They start counting their pennies in Sept/Oct to make sure they have enough spending money and shopping money.

I know people say Christmas is for little kids but I must say I enjoy it very much with my teenagers. They are involved, fun, excited and don't get up at 5am.