Probably Longer Than You Plan to Read

Well now. It's suddenly pretty cold. One day the tree in our backyard had almost all of it's leaves, which were still mostly green, with little bits of yellow. We had a really cold night, and the next morning it looked like this:
The ground under the playset looked like this:
We've spent most of our weekend trying to be Christmasy. I usually regret not doing enough, after Christmas is over. So this year we are decorating, watching lots of Christmas movies, making cookies, driving around LOTS to look at lights, and crafting. Both the kids LOVE the Christmas lights. We can see Paige's face light up when she sees houses with lots of decorations, but Cason's seat still faces backward, so we just have to listen to his excitement. As we pass the really cool houses he'll squeal "OOOOH!" It's so cute. Speaking of cute...
We also took pictures, using our camera's timer, for the Christmas card. They turned out pretty mediocre, but I guess they'll have to do.

Now that we're old and don't live with our parents, there's never any leftover turkey for sandwiches after Thanksgiving. So we bought our own turkey. We figured it would be good to practice in case we ever host Thanksgiving. Jess ended up doing all the work while I was at a babyshower. I came home and made mashed potatoes and he made stuffing, and we had our own little Thanksgiving dinner last night. I'm not gonna lie, Jess made one tasty turkey for us.
Last night we went downtown to watch the Light Parade.
They loved it once it got going, but Paige was freezing and asked to leave a little bit before it really ended. On our way out I was pushing Cason's stroller, and I had to weave between people to get up on the sidewalk near our car. As I passed, I smiled and said "excuse us", and a lady I was passing goes "I wanna knock you in the #*$S*@' head." It was awesome. I was like "Are you kidding me right now?" It made no sense at all. She of course quit being brave and wouldn't make eye contact when I asked her that, and we finally got to our car. I was getting SO mad, because we had both our babies and she just yells the F word in front of them. Then they came over and apologized really sincerely. We were like, "oh...okay then. Just forget about it." It was SO weird. She said her husband made a joke and she took it the wrong way, and she felt "REALLY bad." Then they left, saying "Have a good night, seriously." We were cracking up the whole way home trying to figure out what the heck happened there. It was weird. I've never had someone get SO mad at me for absolutely no reason.

Anyway, this morning was my turn to sleep in. Jess is so much more fun with the kids than I am. I woke up to them playing with this gigantic fort.
Then we rearranged Paige's room, because I get bored with the furniture being in the same places too long. Plus her bed was in the middle of the room, and I figured it would be good to have some room to play. We moved her bed first, and they jumped on it and cuddled up in the blankets while we worked.
Then I asked Paige if she liked the way we set it up and she yelled "THANK YOU FOR MY ROOM!!" and threw her arms around us and kissed our cheeks. SO worth the effort. :)

Then she played some more in the bed, got static hair and said "My hair's all CRAZY! Take a pisker!" And I did.