Its beginning to look at lot like the fourth week of Advent!

Well, things around here have been pretty busy. We moved (2 weekends ago now!) to a bigger apt, which is still hard to keep de-cluttered. (Who knew? Bigger space doesn't mean less clutter!) We're trying to combine unpacking with decorating for Advent and Christmas... Makes for lots of clutter! Moving in the middle of Advent also kind of throws a damper into creating an Advent-y environment. We went out and got a nice, real Christmas tree yesterday, and we kept the extra branches from the bottom to decorate elsewhere with. Wouldn't you know, still don't know where the camera is, so I don't have pictures so you know what I'm talking about!

Yesterday, we had an adventure at Bass Pro Shops. Its fun at Christmas time! Its nice Dave had a Thursday off, so we didn't have to brave gigantic crowds. I'm a sissy about that. CJ got to have a picture with Santa! (So did Jeeves, actually, but I'm not quite as excited about that.) We decided to drop Jeeves back at home before going to get a tree, just in case he decided to, uh, "mark" all the trees in sight! But, wouldn't ya know, we were plopping into bed last night, and I heard Jeeves drinking water. I thought, "that sounds a lot closer than his water bowl." Sure enough, he was drinking out of the Christmas tree bowl. (Ok. We got the hint, and refilled his.)

CJ in the mornings...

This is what I get to see every morning. :o) What a great way to start the day-its saying yes to my vocation all over again. Great daily reminder.