new house and christmas fun

getting started

"open shut them, open shut them...."

"jingle bells"

owen, caroline and rafe post performance photo op

caroline saying "cheese!"

owen's outta here!

playing with the props

playing with the nativity sets

deocrating the tree

mommy and caroline

caroline digging through all the holiday boxes

checking out the ornaments

caroline's reaction when we told her we were done decorating

most of you know, we've been building a house here in charleston. well, it's been hard to estimate when we might get to move in...they started it way later than we thought and we just assumed it would take a while and that was okay. about 2 weeks ago we had a walk through with the builder after they drywalled and he said we'd be getting an estimated completion date soon. well, our new home representative (aka realtor who gets to sit in the model home all day) called and left a message for john with our est. closing date last week and it is.......JANUARY 9th!!! yes, you read that right, about a month away. side note, john tricked me and at first said december 22. i literally almost fainted and he quickly told me the real date. do they honestly think that's enough time for me to pack everything back up (please remember we just packed and unpacked everything we own less than 6 months ago), get ready for christmas (not even close to being done shopping) and be out of town for 2 weeks at the end of december??? in the middle of all this, i'm pregnant and tired, tired, tired. i'm just not doing as much as fast and that's just not good. oh my goodness, that just stressed me out!!!!!!! keep me in your prayers!

on a different note, this past thursday night, caroline's preschool had their christmas program. it was soooo sweet. she did great and enjoyed being on stage. i'm posting some pixs so you can see. they only sang a couple of songs, but it was precious. she didn't see us out in the audience until they turned the lights up and she was so excited...she waved and said "hi mommy, hi daddy" and smiled real big. i'm also attaching some pixs of us decorating the tree, caroline's favorite task. after we were finished, she cried and said she wanted to do it again. we had a busy weekend full of christmas fun...daddy and caroline had a date night friday while i went to a girls only christmas party (so fun!!), saturday night we had the radiation oncology dept christmas party downtown and tonight we went to the christmas parade in mt. pleasant. we're not short on christmas activities around here :) i'll post some pixs of the parade later. it was chilly!!!