We are finally more prepared for Christmas.  A couple of days ago, the boys were so helpful stuffing our holiday cards in envelopes and putting stamps on them.  They loved to help out, and kept bragging how much work they had to do and how important their work was.  Today we went out to do some gift shopping.  The boys were more interested to find something for themselves and later switched gears to play at the video game display, but overall we ended up doing fine checking somethings off our gift list.

    Stuart had gone out to get us a tree before the storm earlier this week, and we just finally had time to decorate it this afternoon.  Connor was so eager that he got me out of bed after our nap to get started.  We put up the lights, then when Logan finished tossing a football with Stuart, he came in to join us too.  The boys were good putting up the ornaments, and basically hung most of them except the high ones which I did.  We listened to Christmas music while we worked.  The holiday spirits is finally spreading.