More Christmas festivities

This past week we decided to try out the Denver Parade of Lights. Anyone with parade age kids would love it. It might as well have been The Macy's parade, my kids thought it was amazing! They had great floats and blow up reindeer, etc. It was a super fun outing...minus trying to find a potty half way through the parade when all the stores on the 16th street mall were closed! A minor deterent from all the fun.

The Santa Grande Finale.

Niles entertaining the Twins with his iPhone while we were waiting for the parade to start.

Lovey playing with my camera. It actually turned out pretty good.

Niles & Lovey at the parade.

The whole family sitting on 16th street downtown before the parade.

Lame!

Ok, I realize this is lame...but I need everyone's addresses for Christmas cards. I don't have everyone's and I don't have time to call or email everyone asking for them. Lame, yes...time saving...yes. so please, cousins, friends, old college girls, fellow bloglisters I would love to send you a christmas card this year. So, take a minute and leave your address. Thanks so much!

Santa Claus

On our crusade to accomplish all things Christmas, we made the annual trek to see Santa Claus at the mall. He was a great Santa...real beard, real belly, rosie cheeks. It was perfect. The kids loved it and had a fun time with friends.

You have to hear this!

Ok,so I went to Niles blog tonight and on his playlist is this song that had me rolling. I'm telling you...hilarious! Anyone who's been married for more than 1 year will probably get it. His blog is theheavensarenothumane.blogspot.com. The song is "Business time". Listen, laugh and enjoy!

First annual tree cutting

Off we went Saturday morning to find the perfect tree up HWY 285. Niles and I both imagined beautiful, thick trees all around....not so much. We were thinking Tagawa's.
What we saw was more Charlie Brown. We spent quite a while searching for a tree that would fit the bill. Luckily, we were able to convince the kids that it was a fun adventure to spend over an hour in the freezing cold looking for a decent tree. It was a fun time until Lovey melted down. I think her words were "I can't take it any more!...I'm freezing!" and halted dead in her tracks. She and the tree were huffed back to the car, both arriving luckily unscathed. We will have to see if there will ever be a second annual tree cutting in our future.

Soren's first published photo of mom and dad. Great job!

London & Soren ready to find "the tree".

London, Soren and dad with the tree of choice.

Pit stop.

Love & mom pre-meltdown.

Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with all Niles' family this past Thursday. all 16 grandkids ran around, watched movies, played games and ate lots of yummy food. In true Watterson style, there were a few "fix it" projects, lots of yummy food and hours of visiting. It was a great holiday!

the kiddos ready and waiting for Their feast.

Me and Niles.


Niles, London and great grandma Elaine.

Candyland...a high intense game of competition when 4 year olds are involved.

Example A: of "fix-it" Watterson family holiday projects.

The Watterson ladies.

An attempt at a family picture...they will thank me later, right?!

Another Watterson family tradition...Eve's ritual snooze.

Splish! Splash!

There's never a shortage of creative activities going on between my two munchkins. This past week they decided to take "mini tubs" while they were supposed to be brushing their teeth. Water was everywhere! They got photographed...thinking they were pretty smug until they got sent to bed without storytime.