Christmas is coming!

In honor of the impending advent season, I have loaded all the Charlie Brown Christmas songs onto my playlist....enjoy!

And check out the Sara Groves song - click on the banner at the top of the page. I LOVE this song and so I was excited to get to share it with you for free. It's a great Christmas CD.

Ooh-rah!

Ben just got back from a trip to DC with his dad for his bi-annual Marine Corps Officer Basic Class 3-56 Reunion (whew! What a mouthful!). They had a great time!

There's a new National Museum of the Marine Corps at Quantico which Ben enjoyed a great deal. When you arrive you get to pretend you are just arriving at your Basic Training - complete with drill sergeants yelling at you! Then there are some great exhibits about WW II, the Korean War and Vietnam. But as always I think Ben was most excited about the planes they had displayed.

Monday they got to do some sightseeing. They went to the National Archives as well as the WW II Memorial and the Air and Space Museum (of course). Ben even got to see President-Elect Obama's motorcade drive by on his way to the White House.

Monday evening was the Birthday Ball for the Marines - 233 years! I was very sad to have missed this because not only did Ben look very spiffy in his suit but there was DANCING! Had I known I would have an opportunity to dance with my spiffy husband I would have gone! But alas - I digress. The ball was held at the top of the Key Bridge Marriott - where they were treated to a lovely view of the city. Ben raved about the steak dinner they served, complete with 2 desserts (Mousse and birthday cake). They have a tradition at the Birthday ball for the oldest Marine present to cut the first piece of birthday cake with his sword and feed it to the youngest Marine present.

Ben had a great time with his dad, but Maggie and I are very happy to have him home!

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Maggie had another great day - only accident was during naptime so I only partly count that one. :-)

Tonight Maggie went to Will's birthday party (he's 3!) and they had SO much fun! It was a Curious George theme and Maggie liked holding her George mask up to her face and going "ooo..... oooo.....ooooo". Joy had quite the dinner laid out and even had chocolate-covered frozen bananas as a treat while she cut the birthday cake! After dessert we watched a Curious George video which was very cute and funny. Everyone had a great time.

It makes me wonder what kind of birthday party Maggie will want when she turns three. . . hmmmmm. . . .