Christmas time at The Pearson House!!

It's for sure Christmas time here at The Pearson House. All the decorations are out, lights are in the windows, the Christmas tree is glowing, Christmas candles are filling up the entire house with an amazing aroma and Gavin has on his Christmas PJ's!!!

Helping with all the lights...

Since we have put up all the Christmas decorations, got lights in all the windows and the spot lights outside, Gavin helps to cut the lights on every afternoon when the sun sets and at night before bed.
Well today "Sonic" the elf, decided that he wanted to help cut a light on too! So this is where Gavin found him....

Christmas Cards ready!!

I got our Christmas cards in the mail today, already have them addressed and now all I need to do is get some stamps and get them to the post office.
I am quite proud of myself for taking the picture, creating the card, getting them ordered and ready to go out before December even gets here. That might put me in the top 20 for mother/wife of the year!?!

Sonic is back...

Sonic showed up last night, early this morning to keep a close eye on Gavin for Santa. He came ready to play that for sure!! He hijacked the Ninja Turtle's truck and rounded up Woody for a joy ride. Those two had a blast cruising around...
Sonic remembered to leave out his note telling Gavin that Santa said Hello and for him to be in his very best behavior!
Gavin was over the top excited to see that Sonic had showed up. But he thought it was so crazy that Sonic being a real life magic elf was play with Woody, who was just a toy. I told him that Sonic liked to play with toys too just like he did...he thought for a minute, then said ok!! Gavin is just too funny and has quite the imagination...

It's time to decorate....

It's the week of Thanksgiving and I am off all week, thank goodness! So instead of sitting back on the couch with my feet propped up, which is what I would love to do...I got Jeremy to get the tree down out of the attic and mom to come over and let decorating begin.
She always brings her creative imagination, this years theme was a winter wonder land, Jeremy thought is was more like Harry Potter with his owls. It actually turned out very cute and Gavin and love it, which is all that counts!!
The tree decorations were left up to me and Gavin, Jeremy was hunting but I saved all of our special yearly ornaments that we find for all of us to put up when he got home. That is one tradition that I will make sure happens every year...

Gavin's first time hunting....

Gavin has been asking Jeremy almost everyday to take him deer hunting. Finally Jeremy caved and said ok...and his delay in taking Gavin, well if you know my child that answers the question.
Thursday afternoon Jeremy went and picked him up from daycare early, brought him home, got him layered in head to toe camo and off they went. I snag one picture before they left....
When they got home I got all the details from their adventure, even details a mother doesn't need to know! Turned out they didn't see anything...but that was ok with Gavin, he was just so pumped about sitting in the tree stand.
Later that evening Jeremy gave me the full story, which goes back to the details I didn't need to know.
Jeremy had planned on taking Gavin to the box stand which is about 8ft off the ground, easy to climb into, a box that completely surrounds them, so no one can fall out!! My main question that I always ask or say " is this safe"!! Well the box stand was occupied by another one of the guys that hunt with them.
Well that is the only "safe" stand...and Jeremy couldn't come home, that would not fly over so well with Gavin. So off to Joey's farm to a deer stand Jeremy has back in woods. He said they get to the stand, he points up really high in the tree to show Gavin that is where they gotta go. Yea, it's about 15ft up a tree and very small, barely a one person stand, much less a stand for a 5 year old and his father!!
Oh but that's just for starters...Jeremy proceeds to tell me he ask Gavin to climb on his back so they could climb up to the stand. Of course, Gavin taking after me said "this is not safe daddy" and refused to get on his back!! He then told him to climb the steps and he would follow up behind him, Jeremy thinking this would be the next safest thing...Gavin again refused! Finally Gavin told Jeremy to go up first and then he would follow, this of course was the most unsafe of all, I was completely dumb founded, my mouth wide open and speechless by this point in the story. In order for them to actually go hunting today, he complied and Gavin followed.
They came home safe,all in one piece and Gavin was one happy little man!! That's all that matters....

Couples and Backward Skaters Only!!

Saturday was Bryson's 5th birthday party at the skating ring in Wallace. Gavin was very excited about going, not because of the skating but because it was Bryson! But Jeremy on the other hand was over flowing with joy, he could hardly contain him self!!
When we got there Gavin ran and gave Bryson a big hug and told him Happy Birthday. Jeremy ran straight for skate exchange, I'm pretty sure he even knocked over a couple of kids...just kidding!!
This brought lots of fun memories for Jeremy, he said he had not skated in about 20 years...that sounds so crazy I know!! He and his sister use to speed skate back in their younger days, I am on a mission to find a picture of them both, all decked out in there speed skating gear.