Christmas is Coming!

I love Christmas.

Look forward to it all year.

We start listening to Christmas music as soon as they start playing it on the radio (which this year was a couple weeks before Thanksgiving!).

I had all the Fall decorations taken down before we left for Seattle because we were diving right into Christmas when we got back.

We took silly pictures with photo props.

We got a little more snow.

Enough snow that is for the boys to race outside to get to play in and toboggan down our driveway in.

Melissa stayed all bundled up in the stroller while the boys played. 

We made a list of all the fun Christmas things we'd like to do.

We got them all checked off! 

Grandma sent us the best present ever (in my opinion anyways).

A countdown calendar just like we had growing up.

The boys did great taking turns putting on the ornament.

Tate usually dictated how that was going to go...good thing he has such accommodating brothers. 

We stayed local this year and went to Santa's tree lot to find our tree this year. 

We found a beauty! 

Got out the nativity.

This is how Blake always arranged it! 

"Everyone looking at Jesus," he would say.

We decorated lots of things, including cookies. 

and more decorating ourselves! 

Most of the time the nativity looked like this after I'd have the boys pick up all the pieces off the ground. 

Lots of Christmas artwork by the boys. 

John did an awesome job with the lights this year!

That's Cookie Monster, Elmo and the little yellow guy that hung out in our front yard all month. 

Krohn's loving Christmas-time!