Nick is officially done with this semester of school. He hasn't had too much going on so we have all just been hanging out together. We have had pizza with tortellini on it, hung out at the mall, watched lots of movies and just generally wasted lots of time. I finally talked Atlas into letting me give him a haircut.

As you can see- I don't know how to cut hair and it turned out pretty uneven, but a few days later, it looks just fine. We also went to a special Holiday Water Fire. Santa was there, but Atlas was too scared to sit on his lap.

Here's my dude being cool by wearing sunglasses when it's dark out.

He doesn't love being bundled up

but he'll still always give me a cheeser for the camera.

Throwing rocks in the water is still his favorite pass time.  This is the spot that we go to most often, at India Pointe Park. We walk under an underpass (Atlas loves tunnels) and over a really long narrow bridge to get there.

It's a long walk home.

This week's kick is making hot chocolate. It's easy and fun for him to dump the powder in and stir it up. It's also "deee lishus."

Our countdown chain is getting pretty short. We will be home in no time. For the next six days I will just be a bundle of nerves thinking about getting on an airplane with this terror. We were hoping to drive to Boston for a day this week, but I am not sure if that is going to happen now since when we went to go to church this morning my car's check engine light started flashing and smoke was coming out of the tailpipe. We will have to take it in tomorrow and see what is wrong. The Jeep isn't working either and we haven't wanted to pay for repairs so it has been sitting in it's parking spot for almost 3 months. Now we have two non-working cars. Of course it happens right around Christmas too, when we have a bunch of other expenses. Seems like we always have car troubles. I guess that's what happens when you drive older cars. Oh well, I'm not going to let it ruin my Christmas cheer! I am happy and excited and looking forward to the next few weeks.