It's Christmastime YEAH!!! I know it's been awhile since I last blogged, but with school and kids it's been difficult to find a lot of time. I still have my online class that I have to finish, but luckily my night classes are over!!!

November came with Kamry turning 9 months old and deciding she was done crawling and it was time to walk like everyone else. Kamry would rather walk than crawl and will only crawl if she is throwing a fit or if she has fallen down and need support to get back up.

The video shows Kamry walking (which I took last night, so she's been walking for a month now).


I finished my practicum, and it is really nice to be home with the kids again. I took 2 more tests for my teaching license and pretty sure I failed 1 of the 2, I get my test results Dec. 20th, so I'm crossing my fingers I passed at least 1 of them. For Thanksgiving we invited the Elder's in our area for dinner (which ended up being lunch), but is was nice to have company and not just our small family for Thanksgiving. I even cooked my first Turkey this year and look forward to future Thanksgivings with family.

In December our community had an Electric Light Parade, which was a lot of fun. There were almost 100 floats with several bands and cheerleaders from the local high schools and middle schools. We arrived at the parade 1 hour before it started and had trouble finding places to sit. Apparently people wait for hours prior to the parade and there are all kinds of street vendors to help you spend your money.

Kamry and Richie waiting on the sidewalk for the parade to start.



One of the floats at the begining of the parade.

There were a lot of really cool floats decorated with lights, but I was holding Kamry and Richie so I couldn't take very many photos.

I finished up my 2 night classes, with some help from Richie on my final projects. I've taught my son well that we only write on paper, the problem is that he feels whatever I'm writing on he should write on. As I was compiling a project Richie came to show me his writing on one of my papers for the project. Of course horrified that the "my son colored on my homework" excuse was going to come into play, I told me son (nt so calmly) that we do not write on Mom's papers.

Last night we finally got our tree up, we had to move one of our couches into a different area to put our tree up. Richie was really excited for us to get the Christmas stuff out and can't wait for Santa to come. He is excited about Christmas this year, which makes it more exciting for me.

Richie putting ornaments on the tree.