First Snow

We got our first accumulation of the season this weekend. Ava couldn't wait to get outside and build a snowman, so David finally relented and they did their best.

I thought they were going to have to borrow snow from the neighbors. : )

They were pretty proud of this guy. Ava named him Yuleton and she kept telling me how handsome he was.

Afterwards we had hot chocolate and opened today's square on the advent calendar.

Photo Party

We invited some friends over recently and had a professional photographer come and share tips on how to take better photos (especially of kids). She taught us things like how to get that cool blurred background (I'm still practicing this) and why you should never use flash or the automatic setting. So, of course, the next day my sister and I staged a photo shoot. It didn't hurt that our models were so adorable.

While the adults were upstairs improving our shutterbug skills, the kids were downstairs having a party of their own (with a babysitter to monitor sugar intake).

Book Sales

I love library book sales. They are probably most defintely one of my favorite weekend pastimes. This was a particularly good haul a couple weekends ago. I think all of this cost about $10.

But, I must not be the only one who loves book sales because there's a website devoted to finding them. It's fittingly called Book Sale Finder.