It was quite cold this weekend that we preferred to stay indoors.  Other than going to dinner with my relatives for my step-mom’s farewell and some shopping, we stayed in the house.  We also needed to decorate the house for Christmas.  Stuart bought a tree during the week and we decorated it together on Saturday.  I placed the lights first, then all four of us put up the ornaments.  The boys were quite helpful this year; I hooked up the ornaments, and they placed them on the tree.  They both were excited to have a beautiful tree.  They also helped by putting up our stockings.  Beyond that, Connor took the next step and went around the house decorating with some red garlands; he was very pleased with his own work, so much so that we have not the heart to remove them.  Later Stuart spent some chilling time outside putting up lights around the house.  The boys tried out their cold weather outfits and had fun running around in the front yard for a little bit.  Its finally starting to look a lot like Christmas.

     Logan and Connor played quite well together.  They spent lots of time building tinker toys and making all kinds of things to show off to us.  They also finally wrote their letters to Santa.  Logan has been very consistent asking for Batman 2 Xbox game.  Connor had mentioned a couple of times previously that he would like to ask for ice cream and toys.  But when we were writing the letter, he did not know what to ask for.  He was fine when I suggested writing a request for toys.