Lights On!

 Having this past week off of work and the kids out of school has been great!  The kids and I got our house all cleaned and organized. Our little family got to visit with a lot of family and friends.  Payton had a friend come over to play.  It feels good to have crossed so many things off of our to do list.  Saturday afternoon, we crossed "putting our outside Christmas lights up" off of our list.  It's been years since we've done this.  I think the last time, was in our first house when Evan and Payton were very little.  If we had known just how happy this made the kids, we would have done it every year.  They were all so excited!  I am so glad that Jason doesn't mind being up on a ladder or on the roof for that matter.  Unlike me, he has no problem with heights.  When he needed extra clips, Evan took them up to him.  He was a little scared, but did great.  Here's Daddy hanging our lights.

 When Evan wasn't helping Daddy (or dribbling his basketball), he helped me put lights on our fence.

 The girls helped arrange our nativity scene.

Minnie Mouse helped out too.

Payton's a hard worker.

Hard working sisters.

Mary with Crazy hair, dirty faced Karsyn

While we were putting our lights up, we were lucky that Nana came to our rescue with a few extra extension cords.  Thank you again Nana!  After Nana left, I took the little ladies inside for a bath.  Daddy, Evan, and Payton worked really hard together on the lights.  My clean, jammie clad little ladies stepped outside when it was time to light up the nativity scene.

 We got it lit and it looks so beautiful!

 Daddy got the lights on our fence and house working!  I think it all looks so pretty!

 It was so much fun to decorate as a family.  We plan to decorate our tree tonight!