Hurray for Christmas!

Last week we braved the crowds (okay, we were the only ones there) and got our last real tree. I'm buying a fake one when they are cheap after Christmas. I'm sad to not have another real one, but the tree-hugger in me feels a little better about it :)

Anyway, here are Jon and Violet with the tree on the roof of the Outback
Violet checks out the lights. She really REALLY wanted to eat them. I guess they do look like electric candies!
Here are the two tree decorators being very silly. I caught Violet's cold (see below) and could hardly get off the couch. Poor me!

I know I probably said this last year, but if you're looking for the Best Christmas CD Ever, click here! It's John Denver & The Muppets - A Christmas Together. Our whole family loves this - we've been listening to it since we were little and we're busy getting our kids listening to it too. LOVE IT! Plus you know the reason we moved to Denver was for John Denver, right? Right.

So Violet got pretty sick last week - it started innocently enough but soon we had red, puffy, weepy eyes as well as a super runny nose and cough. Lovely! We thought she looked pretty funny with her puffy red eyes so here you go!Unfortunately I also caught it, and in true "pregnant lady" fashion I had it twice as bad and twice as long! Luckily today I am finally feeling a bit better so hopefully I'm on the mend!

We also got a good dumping of snow this week. Violet insisted on putting on all her gear - bunny hat, jacket, big white boots, mittens... so we got ready to go, leashed up Porter for a nice walk and... she apparently wanted to go for a CAR RIDE and not a walk! It reminded me of the Christmas Story movie. We just went back inside.
Here are a couple of videos for ya... This first one is Violet attempting to say "Anna" - she was looking at my sister's Christmas card with all the kids on it. I kept telling her the names and this is what she said for Anna (this is what she usually calls Leah).


While I've been sick this week, Violet has had the run of the house. Usually I wouldn't let her do this but there wasn't much I could do to stop her and she was having SO much fun. She is picking up a LOT more words but these are still gibberish (well, I actually think she's saying "pizza" but I'll try to ignore that!). She cracks us up! Also please note the absence of all decorations and lights at her level on the chair. Many painstaking hours were spent moving them and taking them down as far as she could reach!