Tis the Season

It was a good weekend in this house. Carolina beat Clemson, and even better, my dad got to come home!

We were pretty lazy, besides getting out in Destin to do some Christmas shopping. We pigged out on leftovers,  made a 7-layer dip for the big game, and even had a Baskin Robbins night and a Panera lunch topped off with Starbucks. Yikes. I might need to break out the sweatpants soon!

Petey Pie (our elf named by Jude) has returned. He's been spotted on the tree with a note, on Maddox's desk coloring, and then lastnight he got into some trouble with the Avengers.

 We started the Christmas crafts today. The boys colored popsicle sticks green and then we took turns hot gluing magnets to the back of them, as well as to the back of several sparkly pom poms and wooden ornaments.

The cat thinks the magnetic tree is our gift to her. By tomorrow morning, I bet those pom poms will be spread all through the house.

 Jude cared more about the magnets than anything else. He stacked them, shaped them, then separated them again and...repeat. He is my little engineer.

Tomorrow is the Christmas parade, but I don't think my little early birds will be able to stay up that late. We'll see!