Saturday, November 27, 2010

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

I loooooooovvvvvee this time of the year! I love Christmas time and I especially love it now that I have kids to share it with. I get so excited to put the trees up each year, for Chris to hang the lights outside, shopping for gifts, and of course watching my kids' faces on Christmas morning! Love it, love it, love it!! We usually put our trees up the day before Thanksgiving. Braden has been so ready for this! He has asked me for 2 straight weeks, "Is it Christmas today?" The kid is ready!

Getting our upstairs tree out of the box. Braden was a little let down when he realized he had to wait a long time for us to get the tree together and the lights on before he could really decorate. Even with his 100 questions of "can we put the ornaments on now?" he was still a pretty good boy. :)

Ethan was loving the new "stuff" in the living room.

My cuties in their matching pjs. :)


Braden was the best little decorator ever!!! Instead of putting them all in one area, he carefully placed them all around the tree, high and low and even pushed them back on the branch. I was pleasantly surprised!! He seriously decorated half of the trees and it looked great! Such a big boy! :)

Ethan checking out the kids' nativity scene.

I tried to get Ethan to decorate but as you can imagine it was a little hard. At first he was almost scared of the tree and wouldn't go near it, then once he discovered the ball ornaments, he said, "ball" and began throwing them. :) After we ended that, he's been really good about not touching the tree. Such a good baby!

Chances of getting a good picture of a 3 and 1 year old simultaneously....next to impossible. BUT the funny pictures you do get=priceless! This is a sneak peek of our Christmas card too. :)

Starting on the downstairs tree-such big helpers.

Oh, and the train. This might be Chris' biggest nightmare. The train goes around the downstairs tree but of course the kids knock it off the track and it's kind of tricky to get it back on. These three have been duking it out over the train for days now. ha! I just sit back and listen....the yearly train will always be a good laugh around here.

2 comments:

the lewis gang said...

that's the plan for my blog title from when we decorated yesterday!!! great minds think alike! i hope to see you guys soon! i feel like it's been FOREVER!!!!

A Whole New McAfee Crew said...

love the one of the two of them!! i love the random pics!