Sorry it's been so long!

I haven't posted much lately so I will try to make up for it now. My computer time has become very limited because Lucy thinks that she should get to type, play games, and use the computer herself. We decided she needed to be completely cut off for a while, I even have to shut the door to the computer room or else I will find her in here climbing up and pushing buttons.

So, she gets into everything now and I find myself tired/frustrated by the end of the day. Today I am almost canceled the Christmas tree, which we went out in the bitter cold to get and where in the process of decorating. She is just so dang "helpful" these days! :/ She really is a big help to me, she will take things to other rooms for me and she will even put a few things away if I don't ask for too much. The bigger I get the more I try to push it. :)

We have been pretty busy lately so I have lots of pictures and videos.

This is Trolley Day, more widely known as Black Friday. Lucy had a little jealously thing going. The more Molly is here and she has to share Oma the better!











We entered our town's first gingerbread house contest. I hope it becomes an annual event because it was a ton of fun. Lucy helped lots with the making of the gingerbread. By the time we were done there was flour EVERY WHERE!!!! Lucy was so helpful that we decided to assemble and decorate our house after she went to bed. :)











Today was the showing an judging of the gingerbread houses. This picture of our house isn't very good but it seems I forgot to take more pictures once I saw all the other houses. There were a couple of barns with animals, a replica of the country club and the town hall, and just some other cool houses.

Our house will be on display at the VFW until Dec. 22nd if you are in town and want to check it out.





This is Oma and Grandpa's entry. It is a carousel with candy cane posts and reindeer to ride.











I wrote a quick post the other day about going to the bounce house place. It was a ton of fun!!!!! I would definitely go back many more times!











This is the entrance to one of the houses that had a tiny climbing wall in it and then a ladder and a slide to get out.










This afternoon we went to get our Christmas tree. Lucy fell asleep on the way there and didn't want to wake up even in the bitter cold. (It was about 20 degrees out plus high winds, brrr!)















Our little angel. She did wake up when she heard the tractor start up, could she be any more her father's girl?











Here she is helping some more. Both girls wanted to help Daddy stand up the tree (Mae is behind Dave sticking her nose in).

We got the tree up, the lights on and some ornaments hung. We will try to do more tomorrow I guess. Lucy and I were both having melt downs so we quit for the night. (Did I mention that we didn't have naps today?)



I will post a couple of videos now. The rest I will try to get up on YouTube soon.


This is from early in the day today. She is such a goofball!


Anyone who is familiar with Dr. Suess's ABC should be able to pick out at least some of the parts from this video. We read this book a lot! (In case you can't tell, she is "reading" this book to me. And getting it right too I met add, the smart little monkey! :) )



This is the video to go with the picture of Lucy helping make gingerbread. She had been watching Daddy flour the counter before he rolled out the dough.

I hope this makes up for my not posting in a while. I will try to be better but I probably won't be. :) I seem to be getting tired out easily these days. (Two and a half months to go!)