Weeeee!

Everyone deserves a celebration lap when the Walmart trip is done!

Night 9

Night 9 - it's bath time!

Night 8

Pluto apparently follows an elf diet of sweets. Ice cream for breakfast? An elf after my own heart!

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Night 7

Last year Pluto snatched SKVs panties and hung them from the tree, with care of course-this year ECVs diapers were stolen. Gracious!

Night 6

He's fully returned to his antics!! Oh SKV will love this!!

Night 5

Silly elf!

Night 4

Little late arrival it seems.

Night 3

Amen!

Night 2

GO STATE!

The Boy's back in Town!! Night 1

HE'S BACK!!!! Back and better than ever! SKV has been patiently awaiting his return and he's arrived with a letter from Santa that talks about Jesus and grace. Very excited about this!

Style

And the rest of you thought you knew how to wear these things. ;)

Dirtiest Baby Ever!

ECV decided the baby was super dirty. Dirty nose, dirty dress, dirty diaper and dirty feet. All clean now! She's a good mommy!

Merry Christmas pups...

These new beds were suppose to be for the puppies...instead the girls are fussing over them.

She's got it!

Much to Daddy's delight someone has all but mastered the Wolfpack hand sign. She picks up a State book, wants to read it and makes a sound and hand motion at every page.

Trees Are Up!

All new record at the Venable house! Trees are up before Thanksgiving! Not sure how this happened but I'm excited about relaxing Thanksgiving and not rushing around doing this...fist pump for more stress-free family time on the break!

New Shoes

Gran Mary got SKV some new interactive shoes. ECV digs them
more than anyone-except the whole falling off her feet part. :)

Vote 2012

We voted!! This year I tried to explain the process and purpose. I started simple like "If you, sister and me were hungry and choosing between Subway and pizza..." After a great explanation-"Well, we'd get Subway because that's what I like." I tried again using daddy, mommy and SKV as characters choosing between a ninja turtle movie and the little mermaid...that got her sidetracked to "why does daddy want to watch the turtles?"

To all her future history teachers-I'll keep trying. :)

Seat?

"I needed a seat. So I pelted Indy with all the toys then sat down. So what are you looking at?" :)

Go who?!

"Go Carolina-Go Carolina!" what we started hearing on the way to today's State game. SKV was being a little instigator. Kevin told her she's out of the family. She responded with, "Whose family are you moving me to?" 😃
Then we heard "Go Duke!"

We blame school. 😉

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Trick or Treat 2012

This year we opted to do the family rounds on the weekend before Halloween so we could join our neighbors. This involved a highly organized trip around the hood, a trailer, step ladder and fun friends! We missed our sweet Heath family though!

Sidney Kate loved it and was on a major high from all the excitement. Embree Claire had it all figured out - wait for the big kids to get theirs then reach for the basket and choose some candy.

Good times-great neighborhood-fun friends.