{with a side of marshmallows}

So I did it.

And by IT, I mean the Christmas pictures. I took the kids' pictures yesterday.

 And the absolutely astonishing thing about that?

 I took them on November 28. A whole month before Christmas.

Not December 19, which is much more typical of me but in November. Amazing.

We were headed to grandma & grandpa's house yesterday to hang out while
Eric was at home studying and we stopped at the park near their house for pictures
and we were done in about a half an hour or so.
 Honestly, I didn't really feel like spending forever on this little photo shoot
 or stressing over it. I was not looking for perfection, that's for sure.

We made a big thermos of hot cocoa and grabbed our mugs and marshmallows 

and kept it super simple. And stress-free. And I think it was a good plan.
No snapping or threatening from this mama. Which is always a good thing.

Happy Monday everyone!
I love Mondays. Seriously.
You know why?
Monday is the one day Eric is in town so he does school drop off in the morning and my sister-in-law picks up on Mondays. I love having just one day that I don't have to do it at all.
We usually go to tumbling on Monday morning but they have the day off today so we don't have to get around and ready for that either. Yay!
So we're in our pajamas still being pretty lazy still trying to recover from
the excitement of the weekend. Yep, love Mondays.
Now to decide on which lovely little picture for our Christmas card. Any thoughts?

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