Tis the season to remodel a bathroom, fa la la la la...
The new and improved floor. No more plastic stick on tiles. We have moved up to the real thing this time around. 
Roland grouted it late last night and I do believe the walls are next. We need to decide on paint color and such. It is coming along.
Saturday night we bundled up and headed to the Clayton Christmas Parade. Thank heavens it was much warmer this year, but boy did it bring out the crowds. It was super packed. Leah had an utter blast, waved and said hello to all of the passing floats.
It was rather strange only having one child to look after. She enjoyed her special time with us.
I am totally that mother who goes out of her way to find matching jammies for the kids at Christmas time. Can you blame me when they look this cute?
Can you also tell that I have them well programmed for my camera?
Monday night we pulled out the ornaments and let the kids go wild. I think I only hung one ornament, they were so excited to see all of the ornaments and to hang them on the tree. It was so fun to sit back, relax and watch them work their magic on the tree.
The branches were not as strong as in past years so Leah kept bringing the heavy ornaments back to me to tell me they were "toooo heaveee!"
I'm not sure which was more fun, checking all of the ornaments out OR hanging them?
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Let's be goofy!
Cody our elf has graced us with his presence once again this year. He came just in time to send Seth a little letter about making good choices and telling Seth how he should treat his parents.
Leah got a treat this morning from Cody because she has been being a good girl. Seth is going to work on his behavior today in the hopes of a treat tomorrow morning.
Last month it was a turkey and this month it's a Christmas tree. The school is keeping us on our creative toes. After some brainstorming, some fun stickers, tree branches, family pictures and construction paper we completed our second family project of the school year.
He was so proud to hand his tree in and he reported that he was the first in his class to bring the project back. Yay Charlton Family! (Anal Mommy!)
I wonder how many more projects we have coming our way this year??
No snow for the Holiday Parade this year either, but the kids had a blast. It was full of good music, great floats and of course...TONS OF CANDY for the kiddos. We set a record again with the amount of kids in our group!!!
It didn't feel much like the Christmas season, but as tradition follows, we loaded up and headed to Copenhagen to find the perfect Christmas tree on Saturday. Seth picked up the chain saw, carried it for about five feet and decided it was too heavy and let Dad take over.
No snow this year, but Seth was excited to get his mud boots a bit muddy. He is such a boy.
SUCCESS!
The tree wrapper was even working this year and the kids thought it was the coolest invention ever.
This particular horse was hysterical. Seth would goof around with him and then the horse would laugh and show his teeth. He was great!
I left out a few pics from Thanksgiving that needed to be shared...
Gram had to sit and rest after playing Just Dance 3 on the Wii. Leah gave her a snuggle buddy to sit with.
Seth is so programmed to smile on key for the camera. This is such a great shot with Grandma Charlton.
I love it when our fridge is overflowing with the kids work. It makes me so grateful that they are happy, healthy and thriving kids! Leah is loving all the projects that she does at Judi's and Seth comes home with all sorts of things from school. I can't wait to open his backpack daily!
I think we enjoy Thanksgiving the most because we get to host it and we love to have parties and people over at the house hanging out! We started the day by watching the parade in our jammies, just chilling out on the couch. Before we knew it, Tom the Turkey need to be basted, seasoned and thrown in the oven!
Leah wanted in on this action of course, she LOVES to help in the kitchen.
I am in the mind frame for the holidays to go big or go home so here is course #1....appetizers!
We are so happy that Justin was with us this year!
We are even more excited that at 83 and 85 my grandparents could join us.
We also love that my in-laws join us yearly too!
Leah took right to Uncle J.
The main course in all its glory. Thank you to everyone for helping us pull this beautiful meal together.
We reconfigured the dining room to fit all 15 people.
My wonderful (hoarder) son created a man cave in his closet and Roland pulled out the original Nintendo for him. He is addicted to it and asked just about every guest to come see his fort and play Mario with him.
Last, but not least, course #3...dessert!
My grandma even brought the kids a candy bouquet which they loved of course.
Nummies as Leah would say.
This past weekend we were given a little turkey preview at Grandma and Papa Charlton's house on Saturday night. We were all together for the first time since last July and we were able to celebrate an early Thanksgiving together. It was great to get the kids together to play, have some wine and some delicious Thanksgiving dinner. It made me even more excited for actual Thanksgiving on Thursday. YUM!
Leah gravitates to the person with the best games on their phone. Brad was trying to bribe her with his games. It was too cute!
It was great to see the aunties too!
They don't look like siblings and cousins do they?? 
