Too cute not to post!

Isaak all nestled snug in his bed.....
Our living room trees......
Isaak under our tree with an ornament.....

I just LOVE that hat!

I've just got to write a little brag about Shaun. Lately he has been putting in such LONG hours to support our family. He's still selling insurance, but he's also picked up another insurance job on the side, PLUS he's studying super hard for all his tests to become a Farmer's agent. He took his property and casualty test about a week ago and got one of the highest scores they've seen! People usually have to take that test a few times before they even pass, but Shaun aced it on his first try! In January he's going back to school with two classes. He stays up late every night studying and works all day long with his two jobs. Even with how busy this fabulous guy is, he still finds time to spend time with me and spoil me. Last night he watched Isaak while I went to get my hair done. When I got home, the entire living room was transformed. He had taken all the cushions off the couch and had set up little caves for Isaak to crawl through. SO CUTE!! I'm so lucky to have such a fabulous, hard working guy. I love you hon, thanks so much for all that you do for our little family, you're the absolute best!

My long term project

I started making these stockings about five years ago. Each one takes from 6 months to a year to finish. When I made Shaun's he came with me to the store to pick out the cording that goes around it. First he chose bright, bright yellow. I immediately regretted that I was letting him choose at all. Then he chose the cording that's around it now. I still hated it, but it was better that bright yellow. When the stocking was done, I was shocked! I think it actually looks pretty good with it. His is the most detailed and was the hardest to do.
Yes, I know what a lot of you are thinking.... "She made one for her dog?!" Well, he's part of the fam. Besides, Shaun really wasn't happy till Rusty had one too.......
Isaak's is by far my favorite. I love the color combinations.
This is the first one I did and definitely the easiest. I have so much fun making these, I'm already about halfway done with our next kid's.....

Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving, we went to Ric and Jo's. The food was delicious and it was so nice to be with everyone for the holiday. The picture above is me and Shaun eating dinner. (It's so nice to be at family's where everyone wants to hold your baby, I get to eat!!)
This is Shaun's brother Scott and his wife, Jae. Isaak was so tired, he was a little grumpy for them.....
Here's Isaak with Bentley and Ashton. Isaak just looooves Bentley and laughs whenever he comes around and follows him around.
With Thanksgiving being over, I gave Isaak his Christmas pajamas. I think I'll start a tradition of giving them on Thanksgiving.

Anyone else go shopping this morning? We braved the crowds for Walmart, Lowes, and Sears. Isaak is SUCH a good sport. He just slept on my shoulder for half of it. Then I spent about eight hours putting up Christmas decorations. I'm still only half done. *sigh* I guess I'll just finish tomorrow.

Just in time

So today Shaun and I went to home depot because we wanted to build some safety gates for Isaak. As we were looking at the stairs and trying to decide how would be the best way to place everything, Isaak just started climbing! (While holding a block in one hand, and his legs pulling up out of his pajama bottoms) He got all the way to the top (13 steps!). We thought we were planning ahead, but I guess we were just in time.

Isaak's room

We had so much fun decorating this room. Shaun mounted the thatched roofs on the walls and painted the monkeys. All I can really claim credit for is painting the walls and the bead board.
We haven't done anything in the play room yet, but we eventually want to paint the inside like a tree house.

We got the idea for these monkeys off a blanket the Miyuki made me for Isaak. Now his walls match his blanket. I had so much fun doing this room, I'm already planning for our next kid. I want to do a camping theme and have bears and moose on the walls, a lantern for a lamp, somehow have the bed inside a tent.... I don't care if it's a girl or a boy, I've got big plans! (girl's can camp too, right?) Ok, maybe I'd have to switch Isaak to the camping room, I'll decide when we have our next kid.

Witches, Ghosts, Goblins, and a .......Monkey

This is Isaak's Halloween costumes this year. The reason I chose a monkey is because his entire room is decorated with monkeys. I'll have to post a picture sometime, but if you can imagine..... there is an actual tiki awning coming out from the ceiling, there's monkeys painted on the walls (compliments of Shaun), plants everywhere, just a regular old rain forest! Anyway, I love the banana on his head. Too bad Halloween only lasts one month.