I cannot believe it’s the end of November.

Next week is December. And my baby turns one.

Excuse me while I go cry in the corner.

On Tuesday, we did one of our very favorite traditions and the signal that Christmas is really here – the Nutcracker! Nathan and I did this totally by accident when I was pregnant with Parker and we haven’t missed a year since. 🙂 This year, we got Gammy, Pops, Aunt Nicole and Gabriel to come with us! Such a fun day!

The kids did so well! Eisley loved all the music and dancing and Parker kept telling us how beautiful everyone was. Ha! 😉 Nathan loved it all, as usual. 😉

Me and the big. Even though everyone comes with us, it’s still just a special thing for us. 🙂

The next day was Jon’s birthday! Such a fun day! We did presents when he got home from work. His aunt and uncle were randomly passing through town that day, so we met them for dinner at Jon’s favorite restaurant, Tucanos.

The boys were just in “blur status” with Uncle Joe, so I couldn’t even get a picture of them, but Eisley LOVED Aunt Amy. She snuggled her for the last half of dinner. So sweet!!

The next morning, the kids woke up and Freddy Frinkle, our friendly Elf on a Shelf, had returned! And he brought suckers that may or may not have come from the pantry, because a certain mom forgot that he was supposed to return until about eleven o’clock the night before. 😉 The kids didn’t seem to notice or care. 😉

He spent all morning on Friday working on this and then had me help him measure it to his head. He said it was his Nutcracker King Hat. Okay, then. 😉 Such a creative little man!

On to December! Oh, I just can’t even believe it.