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Today was busy.  We went to JoAnn's first thing so I could get some fabric and a few other things for Christmas gifts.  While we were there I saw this really cute pillow that you put your tooth in and the tooth fairy comes and takes the tooth out of it and puts your money there.  I thought it would be a good idea and fun for Kayleigh to make.  And it would be useful, since the tooth fairy didn't come last night.  She had no cash.  And since Kayleigh's tooth didn't come out until 11 she was already out doing her deliveries and had no way to know.  I don't think the tooth fairy has a cell phone.  At least that's what I told Kayleigh so she wouldn't be disappointed because I didn't keep cash in my wallet.  That sounds good and believable right?  Anyway, the pillow is one that you sew yourself.  So Kayleigh did the project mostly by herself.  So I snapped some pictures of her doing her project.  It took her 10 minutes to thread the needle.  Look at the concentration on her face!

I took this one just because.  I'm trying to be all photographer like ;) 

She finally got it threaded!  Notice that she smiles so you can see that she lost a tooth. 

Then she got to work.

And finally the finished product!

I thought she looked so pretty here

She loves her new pillow!

It was really frustrating for her because it has holes that you just thread the floss through, but they weren't lining up just right.  So there was a lot of yelling in frustration.  But she finished it and is so proud of it and herself.

I was taking all these pictures of Kayleigh, naturally Spencer asked me to take some of him.  So I did. And as much as he frustrates me and is pushing my buttons lately.  I can't help but think he's so damn cute!

This one's a little too bright, but still cute!

I LOVE this one!!!!

He REALLY wanted me to take some pictures of him "playing football".  Of course I'm a sucker and love to take action shots.  And I know his dad loves to see that Spencer loves football as much as him.  So I took these too.

He loves to cut, maybe he will be a RB like daddy wants :)

He always makes that face too!  It cracks me up!

TOUCHDOWN!!!!!

I finished putting up the Christmas decorations today too.  So here are the pictures of the house.

I love having these lit at night, it adds so much to the room!

All of our decorations we bought to fit our old house.  So I really was having a hard time trying to make them fit here.  But I think I did pretty good.  I also thought that the end of the room with the tree felt crowded.  But after living with it for a day it's fine.  My only complaint is the wall with the TV is completely blank!  I need to find something HUGE to hang above the TV.  Nothing bugs me more than a huge expanse of white wall!  It I don't find something soon, Nate may come home to some crazy color!

I was really worried that I wouldn't like the table cloth with the yellow walls in the dining room and the blue curtains and rug.  But I kind of like it.  I don't HATE it. So I suppose it's good enough for now.  Here it is.

This is our family ornament for this year.

I took this one of the wreath that I made and hung from the mirror

Then I took this one.

When I was going through them, I noticed how I had focused on the duck ornament.  I thought it was really cute.  Totally on accident.  I'm sure that I had focused on the wreath, but then my super unsteady hand moved the camera just a little and the focus point moved.  I think the coolest thing about that picture is that ornament was Spencer's 1st Christmas ornament.  Yes, I am sentimental like that.  It may not be beautiful to a professional photographer and there are probably A LOT of technical mistakes with it (#1 part of the mirror is cut off, probably from my accidental movement which caused the beauty of it in the first place).  But it is beautiful to me because of the subject. It's like that ornament is illuminated and meant to be the center of attention.  I love it!

So that was our day.  A lot of pictures, a lot of time together, a lot of fighting and a lot of fun.  Now I'm off to play tooth fairy.  Wish me luck!