December!

The only animal we saw at the zoo- ducks by the pond. Oh, they did have camel rides and you could pet sting rays in the pool. I'm sure the rest of the animals hate December because of ZooLights. Especially the stupid teenagers who were yelling for the coyotes to come out.

Nothing says "Happy Holidays" like a scorpion and spider made of lights!

Christmas in Arizona (at the zoo anyway!)

A big truck too! Thanks Aunt Andrea, Uncle Ryan, Addison and Bella!

Ooh! Something Colin's allowed to hit!

Standing on the box was just as fun as unwrapping it.

No, we did NOT put Addy in DeeDee's crate! She went in there on her own! She thought it was so funny to do that. She loved the dogs too!

Addy LOVED the train! Unfortunately, it doesn't have an off button or a volume control! I guess Colin's showing her how it can make even more noise!

It is December already! I hope everyone is enjoying their preparations for Christmas! We are having fun here. We decorated the house (after Colin went to bed) and loved reminiscing over each ornament on the tree. We are also continuing our new tradition of reading devotions after dinner. Now they have turned to Advent devotions and we love lighting the candles each night! We had a great weekend with Rodney's sister, Andrea and her daughter Addison who came down for a few days. Addy is 16 months old so we had two toddlers in the house! Craziness! We even got to do a little mini Christmas gift exchange with them to let the babies get a preview of Christmas morning. It was such a great visit! We did some shopping and visiting, and even got to go to ZooLights at the Phoenix Zoo! The babies were tired, but they were troopers. I hope they can come visit again sometime. It was a lot of fun to see Addy and Colin together. They got very attached- holding hands, giving sippy cups to each other, and Addy even cried one time because we took her out of the shopping cart first, leaving Colin behind! Oh the fuss! Colin was soon in the carseat next to her and all was well. We took quite a few pictures- so enjoy!