Pizza Eating Pirate

Happy Birthday, Oden!

Aiden's buddy Oden invited us to his 4th birthday party today. Adam drove everyone to the party.

But then he drank too many juice boxes, so Aiden drove everyone home. (If you'd seen Aiden drive, however, you'd have thought HE was the one who'd drank too many juice boxes....)

Bree & her new best friend, Elizabeth.

Trimmin' The Tree

A Christmas Tree Adventure

Little did we know what a long afternoon this would turn out to be. We arrived at Durkee Farm, a few miles from home, to cut our own tree as we do every year, only to find that they were SOLD OUT (on the 2nd weekend of December?!?!?). After calling a number of other cut-your-own-tree places in the area, and finding them ALL to be closed for the season, we ended up at what appeared to be more of a "former" tree farm in Groton. Not exactly the easy breezy Christmas tree cutting adventure that we'd set out for. Long story short, the trees were all enormous (at the least the nice looking ones), you have to claw your way through the prickle brush while searching for a tree, and Daddy's saw (a Marden's special....) was not adequate for the job at hand. We all somehow managed to survive, mostly unscathed....

Looking a little worried for Daddy....

Yep - that's our tree. No lie....

2 1/2 hours later......

Holy Sugar!

Aiden's masterpiece from Kid Ventures (post preschool "enrichment"). Clearly today's topic was NOT nutrition....

The Sunday Circulars

Gotta love the Sunday morning circulars before Christmas. Every page of Toys R Us has about 10 toys that Aiden NEEDS Santa to bring....

Oh You Better Watch Out!