Jingle All The Way

Isaac has found that his favorite Christmas song to sing is Jingle Bells. Although he hasn't managed to sing the whole thing quite yet, so it goes something like this "Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, alllllllll the way along, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, allllll the way aloooooooong"

It's a work in progress, he'll get the hang of it, sooner or later (I hope!)

This weekend we were quite busy with pre-holiday festivities. On Saturday we met up with our group of tiny tot friends to watch the annual Christmas in Edgartown parade, which I have to say was far better than any I've seen in past years. We saw tons of great floats, the nativity scene, a border-line inappropriate dancing Santa and naughty helpers, Frosty the Snowman, alpacas, a goat riding on a tractor, some really fun singing dancers, and keeping up the rear, SANTA himself, riding on a fire truck!!

After the parade, we had a rough time catching up with Santa for a snapshot. He is quite elusive!! It was certainly worth the wait. I thought Isaac was going to pop with excitement! I couldn't help but laugh at him when he wriggled his way to the front of the line, poked his head into the room and said "Hi Santa (with a little wave) It's me, Isaac, Hi" Then came back into the line. Hahaha, he's TOO much!

There was a full moon that night, and we took full advantage by going on a moonrise walk at Felix Neck. The sunset was spectacular! The sky was a bit too cloudy to get a clear view of the moon, so those photos came out a bit blurry : (

It was freezing cold out, but well worth it. Isaac was a real trooper too. I was surprised he did so well, it was a very long walk, without a stroller (I blew out the tire on the way to the parade) and I had to wake him from his nap to make it in time! What a champ. He loved listening to the owls, and the headlamps were a huge hit, especially since we were the only people who had them. Clearly nobody else thought ahead. Pashaw. It's always far better to be overly prepared, in my opinion.

Today, before I had to work, Isaac and I met up with my mom, and my nephew at Cedar Tree Neck, to cut down a Christmas tree. I had irrationally high hopes for something amazingly fabulous. Something out of a Real Simple or Martha Stewart catalog. . . Not so much.

I quickly realized why these trees were free. It was really fun anyhow. Isaac picked out a fantastic little tree which I helped him cut down. He carried it (part of the way) back to the car, and when we got home he wanted to decorate it for the birds.

Four Years. . .

In three minutes, it will be the anniversary of our wedding : )

I can hardly believe that the time has flown by so quickly. With each day, I love my husband more than the day before.

Getting into that Holiday Spirit!

It's Christmas time already! You'd never know it by the warm weather we've been having around here though. Yesterday Isaac was in flip flops and I was running around in a tee shirt, in DECEMBER! Unheard of!

Our holiday countdown has begun, we're at only 19 days until Santa brings his goodies, and I haven't even started shopping : (

I really need to get on that, and pronto!!

My great friend Ariel, www.arielthomasphotography.wordpress.com came over last week and took some super adorable photos of Isaac. She even knit him his own Santa's elf hat! She's far more talented that I'll ever be, that's for sure : )

Isaac hammed it up like usual, and I know she got some amazing shots of him! I can't wait to print them and send them with Christmas gifts this year!

Even Alexander started getting into the ol' holiday fun.

The Grey Barn

Last week, Isaac and I met up with Aunt Woo Woo at the Grey Barn. She was helping with the milking of their cows that morning, and we wanted to get in on the fun! 

We missed the milking, but we helped collect eggs from their chicken coops, we herded the cows, drove a gator, helped plant seeds for the cows special treat grass, saw week old baby piglets, fed older piglets, and their much older cousins, then proceeded to be chases by the angry mama pig who didn't want us so close to her teeny babies!! 

It was such a fun day!! We'll be heading back there for sure! 

Alpacas with Baba and Gigi

Unfortunately, Isaac got sick Thanksgiving night, and didn't shake his bug until the day before they were leaving to head home. It really limited our fun time with them : ( 


We were able to take advantage of the beautiful weather one of the days they were here though. Isaac had asked to see some Alpacas and lucky for us we have our own Alpaca farm here. It's just up the road from us, and Baba and Gigi hadn't been there before. 
It was really fun! We got to see some of their new babies, a giant male who looked like a camel at the wrong farm (lo and behold, Alpacas and camels are cousins. Who knew?!) 
We explored their gift shop, and saw tons of great products all made from Alpaca wool, if it wasn't so smelly, I'd love to have one of the huge, fluffy hats! 

A Time for Thanks

We were very lucky to have Michael's parents visit us for Thanksgiving this year. We celebrated at my uncles house, which meant I got to take it easy in the cooking department! Somehow I still managed to ruin not one, but TWO pumpkin pies : ( 

But I wowed the crowds with a sweet potato pie, and my famous apple pie. 

(Michael was rather sad that he only got to eat half of it)

For fun this year, I brought mustaches to the second course, 

just to spice it up a little bit! 

Everybody (the few that weren't too tired to join us for the second course anyway) really got into the fun of it, and had a blast!