Tis' the season...christmas tree and Santa Lucia

I go in waves with Christmas, some years I am excited about it, and I feel festive. Other years its a real effort to muster the spirit. 

This year was one of the latter... we rallied to this little tree stand that sells exclusively tree's thinned from Rocky mountain national park. It was small and sweet, and they even had two real reindeer ! Amazing animals.

Colorado pine trees are thin and wind swept. They don't have the thick boughs and spicy scent of the scotch or balsam fir, but their simplicity sort of symbolize how I would like to go about the holidays this year...

 nice to run into a friend who snapped this pic for us :)

Skip to St Lucia, the children's beautiful watercolor Menorah's on the wall's

I love this picture, daddy lighting her candles, she got to be Santa Lucia! oldest 2nd grade girl

She held her head so straight and still, her candles never blew out!

Happy Monday

First day of school: 2nd and 5th grades

 

Bits and pieces

Selfies before date night with the Hub, on our way to watch brazilian dancing and drumming

I had the best mothers day I can remember, they let me sleep in, oh heavens to that!

and arrived triumphantly in my room carrying this little present they had picked out with their dad, all wrapped in drawer contact paper, lol, what killed me is they all wrote their names, even malawi (kind of looks like Mcguckins)

mani's beautiful card, it had a 3D heart in the middle

Zi's: there we are

Zi made me this rose out of beeswax, but the best part? he decided to unload the dishwasher and wash all the dishes in the sink, hurray to my boy taking initiative and growing up, helpful and kind

the babies drag these little doll pillows ALL over the house, its their job, dear gawd.

 pretty snack

pulling over to see this rainbow after the rain, oh Colorado skies

zi's cello recital

this dumpling

garden almost planted, baby kale on the rise

tomatoes and things

greening up

new " for reading under the buckeye tree" swing

I painted this lion for the boys room, debating weather I like working with acrylics

(( Happy Thursday ))