November Pics and the build up to Christmas

I spent a decent amount of time in the end of November/early December attempting to capture the perfect Christmas card shot of Hope and Jack.  Not sure if I ever got it, but in the end, I had quite a few that summed up how things are with two very busy 20 month old toddlers.  Most of you received our actual card with my final selections, but here are more of the shots and some of the funnier ones. 
Notice Hope's foot just out of this shot below . . . seconds before she was sitting next to her brother.

Granddad was our photographer for some of our family shots and I took this one for his holiday card.  So cute!!!!

Here's Hope exploring the book corner - having escaped from Mom who was trying to dress her.

The best cheering squad and me post the Philly Half Marathon in November -- I ran in my Team Hope shirt!

Jack having fun on the rocking chair with Grandmom at Thanksgiving 

A random shot, I know.  But one night, I was rather impressed with the palate of colors I had prepared for Hope and Jack so I took a photo . . .

Setting up the tree with help from Granddad

 My previous post had our Santa picture from this year.  If you haven't seen it, please look back.  Here's Hope before holding on to the BOB roof with excitement (she obviously knows nothing of what's to come!)

 Here she is recovering post Santa trauma by a pretty tree safely back in Mommy's arms. 

Our tree this year with Hope checking it out!

A random morning of Santa PJs and milk

A couple videos - one of our crawling monster and another of our giggle monster . . .