Just a little of this and that...

Patrick and I both had the day off so we ran a few errands together. I finally started some Christmas shopping! Seems like I start later each year. While running our errands it was almost depressing seeing so many stores going out of business. We are praising God that we still have jobs.

Connor has been busy practicing for the church Christmas musical. He plays his CD (with the songs that he has learn) everyday! I can now sing all the songs by heart! He is very excited to be part of the production this year

Patrick is going on a staff retreat this week. Yep, another retreat! But this one is all work and won't be as fun as last weeks retreat.

We snapped a few pictures for our Christmas card this week. I'll post a couple that we aren't going to use.

(Connor wanted to use the camera too)

Patrick had to work late so we didn't take a family picture. This year I decided that I would not stress over taking pictures ( I stress out every year). I told the kids that I had shirts picked out for them and the whining started. Courtney and Cass really wanted to dress "wintry" and Connor wanted to wear anything but a shirt with a collar. So I decided to let them wear what they wanted. No color scheme and no themes. I figured if they clashed I could always make it a black and white or sepia photo. Well, this turned out to be the easiest photo shoot I have ever done! Since they were happy in the beginning they had good attitudes til the end! Courtney took some of the pictures. She really enjoys photography. Here are a couple of her shots...