Santa's Elves

Oh for heaven's sake, Holland is growing up so fast.

She gave her first talk today in church-- in front of our entire congregation.

Her topic was gratitude and boy, oh boy, did she nail it.

It was Byron's turn to go to church.

But lucky for me, my friend's daughter, Caitlin Swanson came over for a few

so I could run down and hear Holland.
(p.s. this is the skirt she made with her church group last week).

 This evening, we finally got around to putting up the Christmas

decorations.  Heather Davis lent us an artificial tree-- since

we had to once again fore go our going up in the mountains and cutting down a live one.

Kean's docs put a kibosh on the ol' live tree again.

 While we decorated, Kean pushed the button- oh, about a thousand times

on the dancing, singing Santa Grandpa Bodily gave the girls a few years ago.

It's gonna be a long few weeks!

 Right before bed, the girls came up with playing Santa's elves to each other.

Whoever's name we pulled out of the hat, we have to secretly

do kind acts for them from now until Christmas.

This ought to be fun to watch!