merry, merry, merry

The turkey has been eaten, the stuffing's put away, and now it's time for CHRISTMAS!!! Normally my husband is the one to get super excited for this holiday but having a young child really gets you into the Christmas spirit pretty early.

Since Jeff and I have been married we have started to create our own family traditions. The day after Thanksgiving we travel to the Red Wood Barn tree farm located in Woodinville to find our perfect tree. Normally we choose a pre cut one but this year we decided to cut our own. Hey, it's cheaper and more fun and you actually have to work for it which makes it even more special.

it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

We are not even past thanksgiving yet but it's already starting to feel like Christmas in our house. Ethan has been hunting through all of the toy catalogs and has picked out his favorites. He even wrote out his list... (and yes that says fart blaster)

Also let me just say that Target has the best holiday decorations around. Love it all!

a little loosey goosey...

The time has finally come. Ethan had his first loose tooth and his first visit from the tooth fairy. He was very excited to tell us that his tooth was ready to come out and it took a little convincing on Jeff's part to pull it out. But it was really ready to come out.

He put it in a little pouch under his pillow and this morning when he woke up, there were two dollar coins. What a lucky kid. :)

Life is like a chocolate chip cookie...

Ethan and I had a mom and son day today while Jeff attended the Seahawks game and they won. Yeah!!! 

We made chocolate chip cookies with red and green chocolate chips. We went to Elevated Sportz and jumped on the trampoline A LOT. Man that is a workout, and we did the dreaded homework. 

finished glass...

Here is my finished product from my glass blowing class last week. It turned out pretty good if I do say so. Maybe a glass blowing career is in my future!

blow me some glass...

Recently I headed on down to Seattle to meet up with some ladies at the Rainier Glass Blowing Studio. I had tried my hand at glass blowing before and ended up making a Christmas ornament but let me tell you, this place let's you choose from a ton of cool things to make.

friday photo...

I know I am bias but I think I have the cutest kid ever. While playing Halloween bingo at school Ethan decided to eat the candy corn markers. Definitely my kid. :)

let's all go to the lobby...

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Halloween. I know that our family did and Ethan got a TON of candy. I am sure he is thinking about how to put a lock on it to keep his parents away from it as I write this.

To continue the Halloween tradition we also did another group costume this year. Well, it turned into one when Ethan wanted to be red licorice which then turned into Red Vines since I had to make the costume from scratch.

I bring you 'let's all go to the lobby'...