Snapshot Updates

Our lives have been HECTIC this hoilday season. So I'm going to have to do my updates with some snapshots and very few comments. I'll get to the point. Yay for you! :)

Mommy has been all about Christmas lately. She even had time to embroider a stocking for Bug! (Thank goodness for that 7th grade Home Economics class!)

Mommy also made a garland! :)

She did NOT make this, but won it at a work holiday party! :)

We have no fireplace, so the stockings hang on the wall. :)

Aunts, uncles, and grandparents have filled up this tree pretty quickly!

We even did some holiday shopping.

Sure, make yourself at home. :) Daddy with no shirt and Bug with no pants. So weird. It's winter, right?

Ketchup lover. Honestly, she could care less about the fries.

Sweet (and quiet) mornings. This girl loves her "guck".

We even had time to get together with the Asians. Love. :)

Fake snow. That's how we do it in So Cal.

Confession: We've been so busy I was going to just buy some treats and send them to Bug's day care. Last minute (last night), I felt guilty and decided to make some of my own...

...and this girl ate half of them.

Ta-Da! Bug's treats for her teachers and personalized Christmas cards!

This is baby C. Bug loves him. Baby C also listens and does everything Bug tells him to do. Poor kid.

New things: We now nap on our 5 minute car ride home and we don't wake up for one hour, no matter what noise there is. Then, we go to bed way later than usual. (I'm not sure what's going on here.)

Look at those lashes! She's gorg.

How loud is your kid? I bet not this loud.

God Bless,

Kat

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