Riley and Avery

Riley's face painted at the Walmart holiday party (not commenting on the quality of the work, but Riley looks cute!)

The best present over: The huge box that the presents came in from Grandma and Grandpa. Note that the box has a "doorbell" hanging on it.

The girls' idea of decorating the tree involves hanging ALL of the ornaments on the branches that they can reach.

I'm getting impatient for Christmas. All the wrapping is done and now I can't wait to give the girls and Rudi their presents! I got Rudi an iPod nano for Christmas, before he was fired. He told me to take whatever I got him back to the store, but I had already opened the iPod and uploaded pictures and music to it, so there goes that. Which is fine because we haven't exchanged gifts since Riley was born. Plus, I'm tired of him buying a new disc-man every month, only to have them break a week or so later. Then I get to hear him cursing in the middle of the night, and the *click*click*click* of him changing the batteries and the *click*click*click* of him taking batteries from the remote controls and every other battery-operated thing to try them to see if they work. Then, if I'm really lucky, he'll tromp downstairs to get the battery recharger and I get to hear that *click*click*click*. Then more cursing and such, all at 3am. Not cool. I got him a hard case for the iPod, so hopefully he won't manage to break it. And perhaps it will get him to go to the gym more often, which in itself is worth the cost of the iPod. I hope he likes it!

Ugh, I'm so far behind on blogging! I still have to post tree-decorating pictures, as well as pictures from our trip to the Electric Safari at the zoo. Better get cracking...