The countdown to Christmas has begun!

Today we began our countdown to Christmas by visiting Santa at the mall. Brianna sat on his lap without me this year! She told him she wanted Tinker Bell stuff and Brayden told him he wanted lazer tag, cube world, and the Batman cave.

You wouldn't know the fight I put up with Brianna to get her to wear this dress by the smiles on their faces! She is so funny about clothes! We have a long road ahead of us!

I guess technically we started our countdown yesterday by building (eating) a gingerbread house! I kept looking at Brianna and she was constantly chomping on something!

Here's the happy family!

Wishing we were at the beach!

As you can see from the pictures, we are already wanting warmer weather! So far we have done pretty good at keeping busy but I'm sure the excitement of bringing out old toys will wear off soon... Brianna has kept asking us if we can go outside and play!

Here is the finished product of our kitchen... for now anyway!

Ofoto pictures...

To see lots of pictures from October click here!

A couple more pictures

Brayden and Brianna "playing" rockband (Brayden is actually pretty good at the drums). No, I did not have a baby... This is Huitsing baby #3 - Kate!

Ceiling Project

Since the weather has been so warm I thought I would give Gary a project to do. We created a little drop ceiling thing (Gary and Brianna call it a "Block O" for the Buckeyes) above our island in the kithcen. Here are some pics of the finished project!

Halloween

Here are a few pictures from Halloween - a little out of order! We had a good time running house to house with our friends from the street! Here is Brayden afterwards getting ready to sort his candy! Their pumpkins were filled to the top! I had to carry them most of the way... (Brayden was a little braver this year. However, he did have a rough time getting some scary things out of his head before bedtime.) Below is a picture of the all the kids (L-R: Cameron, Collin, Brayden, Sophi, Chloe, Brayden Polley, Evan, Caleb, Brianna)

Look how much Chloe and Brianna match even though they have on completely different costumes! Last year they were both princesses and they looked so much alike then too. They're even wearing the same silver sparkly shoes!

Spongebob and Abby Caddabby!

Brianna loved trick-or-treating! She kept saying, "let's go to another house and get MORE candy!"

Here's another video of Brianna singing...

Here is a video of Brianna's version of the theme song for The Backyardigans!