Heat

We have working heat in the master bedroom! Aaron was able to get the wall heater installed today. A friend came over and helped some. While Aaron worked on that project I worked on putting up Christmas lights outside. They turned out pretty nice. Nothing overboard, but the kids like them. Kristin got to play with Parker a little this afternoon too! They were both great inside while Aaron was working on the heat and outside with me while I was up and down on the ladder. Our driveway is highly decorated with chalk drawings. Aaron had hockey tonight. I took the kids to run a couple more errands while he was out. After dinner we were able to get a few of the Christmas decorations out.

Busy Day

Busy day today. Lot's of errands. This morning we went over to the flooring store again to get more samples and then we went across the street to Home Depot. Danelle wanted to pick up a wreath for the front door, and I got a bit extender for the drill.

After lunch, Kristin and I went to a public skate at the Sherwood Ice Arena. Kristin did very well, especially since she hadn't skated since September. She's also pretty well outgrown her skates. So we went into the pro shop after we were done skating to try on a bigger pair of skates. Kristin now has new ice skates on her Christmas list.

After we got back from Sherwood, I mowed the lawn (hopefully for the last time this season) while Danelle took the kids on another errand to Ace Hardware and Fred Meyer. After dinner we hung out in the living room and played with legos and also the kids' fire trucks while switcing back and forth between the OU vs OSU football game and the Penguins hockey game. The Penguins won, but the Beavers couldn't hold keep up with the Ducks tonight. A win would have sent them to the Rose Bowl. Oh well.

Sometimes they play nice

When they are not terrorizing each other, sometimes they do indeed get along. Here are Kristin and Kellen sharing a toy earlier today.

Kristin was excited this morning to see if the tooth fairly left any money... she wasn't disapointed. She was real proud, probably because she managed not to swallow it this time!

Mostly errands this afternoon. We stayed at the house this morning to avoid all the traffic with the door buster sales. We went to a different flooring store today. This one is newer and equipped to handle kid - they even had a little play room. Kellen actually didn't want to leave when it was time to go.

I'm not sure what Kellen ws looking for, or if he ever found it, but he seemed to have fun looking!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone from the Isenhart household! We had a good day with lots of yummy food. I cooked up a lot of things and the turkey turned out great. I love this time of year because the house smells so good. Uncle John came over for dinner tonight. It is always good to see him and the kids really enjoy playing with him. Kellen was a little terror tonight. He just wanted to be in the kitchen while I was cooking. He also has this high pitch scream thing he does. All in all it was a good day.

Kristin lost her 2nd tooth tonight! I mentioned to her that it might help to wiggle it some, so she did and out it came. She was so excited. This time we got to put it in the tooth fairy pillow instead of it being in her tummy! Hooray!!! Kristin is very excited that the Tooth Fairy is coming tonight. This picture shows her pointing at her small tooth.

Stickers

Thanksgiving stickers were a hit tonight. After dinner the kids were a little wound up and picking on each other. So, I got Kristin at the table to fix a turkey she made at Kindergarten. She decided she also wanted to add stickers to the turkey. The turkey is now all decorated and to me it looks like the turkey has sticker "pox". HA! I got some more stickers out for Kellen. He sat in my lap and happily played with the stickers. Aaron caught a picture of Kellen with 2 stickers on his fingers.

Kellen Loves His Baby Pooh

Sure is a funny name for a doll. Baby Pooh. As if we don't get enough poo. :)

So, this is a picture from earlier in the month. And yes, Kellen does wear that shirt alot. We like it and so does he. Sometimes we let him point to a shirt to weaer in his closest before getting him dressed for the day. This one is a favorite for sure. Anyway, Kellen has really taken to the baby Pooh Bear. It's a hand-me down from Kristin that was actually a Christmas gift from Grandma and Grandpa J one year. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa!

This evening Kristin and I read a book that she brought home from her library at school called Happy Thanksgiving. It's a little advanced for her to make out all the words, but she did a great job trying. We finished the evening with a book called Houses that she was able to read to me with no problems.

We think we've got the photo issue solved. There's a little bug with blogger that prevents double clicking on photos when we insert them justified to the center. So we'll just put them in with left justification and you'll be able to right click to do a 'save target as' without image degradation.

Birthday Party

This morning Kristin and I went to JoAnn's Fabrics to get some fabric, etc. for some Christmas crafts. This afternoon we all headed over to SE Portland for a birthday party for our friend Rowan who just turned 1 year old! It was a fun party with a lot of kids. All the kids had fun and Kristin and Kellen both liked playing on their piano. Aaron and I also enjoyed the party as we were able to catch up with our friends Teresa and Scott and meet a lot of parents. It got pretty windy here today, which made it feel really cold. It was a hot chocolate day for me, which is nice that I made a new batch yesterday for gifts. :)

The picture is from the party today with Kristin on Rowan's walker/bike toy, Rowan on her tail and Kellen in the background checking out some toys.