Welcome Christmas Season

Hooray!! Welcome Christmas Season... I got the Christmas Spirit early this year, and was super excited to decorate and celebrate our Savior's birth. We took advantage of Mom being here at Thanksgiving to do our decorating so she could feel like she got to be around both holidays, and we had some extra hands to help out. Christmas decorating is kind of a 'thing' in our family, and we put on our Frank Sinatra CD and pull out the bins from the garage and have fun going through the stuff. The girls get so excited seeing the stuffed animals, books and ornaments and can hardly wait to find the perfect place to put them.

 

Madison saw her old friend Rudolph and gave him a smooch hello.

Buffet village

 

I was super excited to discover The Christmas Tree Store, it's an east coast store that is open year round, but has a ton of cool stuff for each of the holidays. Jarrett and I found these ceramic houses there and I fell in love- I have always wanted a Christmas Village... it was my present this year! Thanks J!

This little tree has some history... its been with me since my first apartment in college! We read the book, "J is for Jesus" by Crystal Bowman that tells the story of how the candy cane got its colors and after that the girls wanted to decorate it this year with a Candy Cane Theme.

Oh Christmas Tree... Not a real one, but still pretty ;)

On December 1st, we wrapped up some Christmas PJ's for the girls to wear this month.. the were thrilled to open a gift early...lol.

 

Both girls jammies came with TUTU's... they were beyond excited. Lindsay asked, "You mean we actually get to sleep in a tutu?!?" There was lots of squealing afterwards. I probably won't be able to get the PJ's off until January...

Sister Love ;)