Fun Christmas Links

Here are some links I am thinking are worth saving for my first Christmas overseas!


Homemade Playdough

Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge

Homemade Gingerbread Latte

Fun Popcorn Recipes

Handmade Handprint Wreath

Louis Standing

And...the awesomeness that happened afterward:

Rough night for the boy

Louis, like my other children, never stops moving. Except he's SO strong. And so skinny and wiggly. He routinely does the above at night, getting out of his jammies. Tomorrow hopefully I'll be able to post the video we took of his newest trick:)

City Pictures

Pictures from the downtown area of Chambery.

Louis Crawling

Decorating our tree

We found a little tree in our "cave" under the apartment. I wouldn't normally be this excited about a fake tree, but this is our first Christmas away from family and I am feeling like some little reminders of the holidays at home might be nice. Plus we don't have other decorations at this point (minus some that are in the mail from my parents...thank you!) so this will make the apartment feel a little bit festive.

The girls had a good time putting the little decorations on it. Louis pretty much wanted to eat the tree and all the ornaments. Since he's crawling now, he's into all sorts of mischief.


Mommy and Louis didn't want to be left out.

Happy 7 Months Louis!

Our big boy is crawling all over the house (mostly to chase mommy...he's a mommy's boy) and now pulling himself up to his knees on furniture. He loves his sisters, eating paper and pretty much chewing on everything (loves him some power cords and paper...yikes!). We love our big 7 month old!


We also want to give a belated birthday shout out to Grandpa George! We love you!