It's Christmas Time, It's Christmas Time

What kid, or parent, doesn't love the Christmas season.  The lights, the decorations, the excitment of waiting for Santa.  Things were pretty hectic at our house this season and we couldn't have been happier.  We stayed busy with decorating, Light's Parade, 3 nights of dancing for Makayla (pictures coming soon), visiting family in Beaver, and trying to finish our Christmas present to the girls -- their new remodeled bedroom (pictures on next blog).  It was definitly our busiest year so far, but so many wonderful memories were made.

The girls have the most fun decorating the christmas tree.

Emma loved to put the ornaments on -- that is until she had put so many on the
same branch that no more would hang there and they kept falling off. 
She was getting so frustrated :)

The finished product.  Of course mom came along and spread out the ornaments. 
I don't think any of the lower ornaments stayed in the same place all season long.

We missed seeing Santa at ever turn, but we finally caught him the week before
Cristmas and Makayla was ecstatic!!

Emma kept asking to see Santa, but she was just copying her sister.  When the time
actually came she wasn't so sure about it.  Of course you can see the
ever present "puppy" in her arms.

James did better than the two girls did at this age, but he still didn't think
it was so cool for his mommy to hand him to this big red stranger.

Every year I let the girls decorate this gumdrop tree.  This year the girls
found the materials in the box and before I even knew it they were
decorating it together.  It was so cute:)

Decorating the Annual Gingerbread house, which the girls then
beg to eat all season long :)



James in his Christmas outfit



I got to help out with the class Christmas party this year and had a blast. 
This is Makayla decorating her gingerbread house -- I know green?