Christmas is here already?

It's been a while since I posted and it's already Christmas. I'll spare you Thanksgiving pictures since that was a month ago, but good times were had by all at the Carrens/Trevino Thanksgiving spectacular. All of my cousins are so grown up! The youngest is 12 now and looks completely different than she looked 6 months ago. I just can't get over how our family gatherings went from 11 little kids running around everywhere to grown people bringing over boyfriends, girlfriends, and husbands!

Nostalgic moment over. Christmas is in full swing at the Markum house. Since last weekend, we have had non-stop Christmas events and activities.

We didn't get to the outside decorations because of the weather, but the inside is decked out. Lucy has not been happy about the Christmas decorations. She has been going through a phase where she is scared of ANYTHING out of the norm. We did get her to pose by the Christmas tree.

Although she is doing better with the decorations, she is still afraid of this snowman.

Mr. Snowman was sitting on the floor, but Lucy refused to exist in the same room as him. He now lives on a shelf where she can't see him.

We are trying to work through her issues.