We had a great weekend around the house recovering from Thanksgiving! The girls spent a lot of time in PJ's, we spent a lot of time cleaning and organizing - moving takes forever to finish completely. It was nice sunny weather Saturday and we were outside a lot then Sunday we had an action packed day with a birthday party and the Festival of Lights parade in DTLA to kick off the holiday season... early to bed Sunday night to go back to school after 10 days off!

Friday night. Leftovers for dinner, Juicy's, red wine, cozy couch and sleeping baby. perfect.

the girls worked on their Lego Vet hospital with dad in new Target Christmas jammies. Prety happy campers too

Assume the watching football position

Saturday morning hanging out by the sunny window with my baby girl watching the world go by

and organizing! This is my crazy shoe system - 1 dot, 2, dots, 3 dots for oldest to youngest (youngest shoe wearer - Tessa will add another dot next year to be 4 dot!) I figure if I continue to only buy the girls these kinds of winter shoes in odd sizes (5-7-9-11 - gotta fit one of those!) - every year I just buy the oldest kid and the hand-me-down but matching system will be intack!

and our new fence was painted Saturday - looks much better green than the white primer all the neighbors were worried about :)

and 12-21 when the Mayan calendar ends - just come here. We've got back up power now.

Going to church Sunday morning

short walk even in the rain to mass

Sunday after church we went to a really fun Superhero birthday party and wore the girls out! They all napped, even Francie in the stroller when she went on a run with Brian and stayed out to "cat nap" for awhile - haha.

bundled up for Festival of Lights parade!

crazy kids ready to roll

and there's Santa! Let the Christmas season begin!

bedtime for bonzo's - Daddy reading Madeline to his bathed, jammied up nightgown girlies.

goodnight! (JJ says "take. MY. PICTCHA!" Francie oblidges and Maisie says "No Way" - typical :)