Nothing says Christmas like a Glutony of Photos

Sorry for the sparse blogging here lately. This ends up being where we do the big "Event in Review" posts like birthdays and Christmas. But if you want to see more of the day to day, you'll find that over at Happily Home Sewn - my crafty blog that gets a lot more attention these days because it's goes hand in hand with my etsy shop.

We'll try to do better. I smell a resolution!

So, as warned, here is a photo overkill post from our Christmas festivities. We had a lovely Christmas. The boys had so much fun with all their goodies and we had fun watching them have fun.

I hope that one's for me!


Eli's face says it all.


He was a bit groggy, but he got his second wind.







The boys got a kitchen for Grandma and Grandpa Decker and have not stopped playing with it, cooking up all sorts of delicious treats at "Cafe Eli."


Eli loved divvying out goodies from everyone's stockings. For days and days.









We went to the park Christmas afternoon. Amos strong armed these kids and climbed his way into their super cool power wheels. Classic.

It was a beautiful holiday and we hope yours was too!

Two Posts in One Day. Wha What?

What I did on my summer...I mean Thanksgiving...vacation:

Did some swinging.


Listened to secrets from Aunt Joann.


Chilled out with my new buddy...Buddy.


Chased some kitties.


Beed cute. (There's a whole series of these found here. Trust me it's worth a click)


Played outside with Dad.


Posed with the fam.


Played charades. Two words. It's a dance move....Sprinkler Dance!


Watch a movie with my bro.


Looked cherubic.


And at the end of the day I jammed as many applesauce cookies as possible into my mouth gerbil style by the double fistfuls. And I was thankful.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We are whirlwind touring across North Carolina once again. We started in Black Mountain, then went our separate ways - Eric to a conference in Atlanta, the boys and me to see my Mom at the beach. We spent four unseasonably beautiful days in Kitty Hawk/Kill Devil Hills. It was warm enough to frolic on the beach...some of us in our skivvies.

Today we're back in Black Mountain celebrating a lovely Thanksgiving with Eric and his Mom's family.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Just a few autumnal gems...

...compliments of the Lazy Blogger.

Trick or Treat!

Halloween night brought us a beautiful sunset fit for a lovely evening of soliciting free stuff from strangers. We joined some friends at their house in the burbs, had a spooky dinner and set off for tricks and treats!
Can you dig it?


They got the hang of it pretty quick.

Our crowd broke up pretty quickly. There were about 15 kids and their parent's in our group, so going all together was a bit ridiculous. Ironically, the racecar group was the slowest. I love how they're all doing their own thing in this shot.


Turtle crossing.



Nice trick.


A grand time was had by all.

Next year - smaller costume.

Iliff Picnic

We went to the annual picnic at the Eric's school today. It was a great turn out. They ran out of food...but there was plenty of cute to go around.











Eli was leery of the kooky magician/balloon guy. But his trepidation paid off. He was the last little lad to get a balloon, after much coaxing from balloon guy. It was crazy awesome.