December...already?

We are typically out of town the whole Thanksgiving, and come home to find everything is decorated for Christmas except our house!  Honey keeps asking wistfully, when we will get out our...stockings...snow globes...tree...etc. I was excited to get out our new advent wreath last night to light for the first time.  At Honey's urging, we got the stockings hung this afternoon.  Driving around town, she said she didn't like to see other people's Christmas decorations out.  I asked why not, and she said it was because it reminded her that we didn't have ours up yet!  Hubby and the kids put up a few outdoor lights this week, and on the way home from Awana last night, the kids remarked that it was amazing that we had lights up before our neighbor, Keith, for once!  Too funny.  We are doing the Focus on the Family advent devotions found here.  We started some 'count up trees' for the little girls today.  Maybe I'll have pics of all that later...but for now, catching up on some fallish things...

..like God's gorgeous handiwork.  The colors and textures were so pretty!

 ...why yes, Honey is wearing gloves and flip-flops!  One finally broke and she has switched to her winter shoes--a pair of crocs.

 ...the rhyme Princess learned at school and can't stop singing...

 ...Princess working hard on her scrapbook--a kit she received as a birthday gift.  It's SO fun to see her take off and work on this herself!

 ...And of course, some cute baby pictures.