This week's favorite photo:

I can not believe that my youngest children, MY BABIES, are going to be SEVEN years old in less then TWO WEEKS!          

How is that possible?

I sat here and added up the days until their birthday. Then I thought, hmmm...they are turning 7. Then I thought, "NO WAY! That just can't be!! They MUST be turning SIX, they CAN'T be SEVEN already!!!"

Wow, time just flies MUCH too fast!

It really is shocking how quickly the days turn into weeks, into months, into years.

Today the children woke up to snow. That was so exciting for them! I think since we've lived here this is the earliest in the year that we've ever had snow! Normally if we get some, it's usually not until January. Hardly ever before Christmas. A couple of years we've only had snow for one day out of the whole year. Yet it snowed late last night, and then again today. Lots of fun!

The new picture at the top of my journal is from the view off my master bedroom balcony. Very pretty, especially with the beautiful snow making everything look so white and clean.

Speaking of growing up, I can't believe our third will be 9 in two months!

Another fav from today:

In other news, not much new.
This week I'll be working to get orders finished up. I have quite a few at the moment. Hubby and I are planning on both taking time off from Dec. 15th to Jan. 8th, so I need to get things done by then.

After Dec. 15th we'll be doing family Christmas stuff only! I've got some things planned. A Christmas Unit Study, some Christmas crafts, lots of Chrsitmas baking, decorating the tree, and sewing some doll clothes and accessories with the girls for the new dolls that are coming as their Christmas gifts. We let them pick out their own dolls, so it's not a suprise. We let them each pick out a Just Like You American Girl doll. For their birthday gifts we let them each pick out an American Girl horse, for their doll. That made Christmas gifts pretty easy! lol

So for their gifts for one another, I'm going to help them make doll clothing for each other's dolls. Even Joshua wants to make some doll sized quilts for their dolls. These dolls are pretty special, and we hope they will be treasured keepsakes for the girls.  Especially with the horses. All our girls are right into horses.

I also ordered a couple of books for them:

I think they'll love these. I KNOW I will. lol

I won't say what we have for the older two, just in case they do some snooping on here. lol

So to get back to our time off. We'll be doing lots of fun family activities. Dh plans to take the children skating quite a bit. I don't do skating much. I have this fear of running another person's small child over. lol I like skating on ponds and such, not indoor rinks.

Well that's about it for now. I think I'll head to bed early for a change and do some knitting.
Yet another new hobby of mine.