within these walls: Yay for Christmas!

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Yay for Christmas!

Christmas spirit has metaphorically exploded at our house. If it had literally exploded I am pretty sure it would have looked like this

We started our Christmas season off with the traditional Christmas tree hunt. Unfortunately this took place in some dudes backyard because our usual forest we go to needs to grow more Christmas trees because it is out of stock, darn it. We managed to get a beaut' this year and still cut it down ourselves. I wish you could see how nice it looks in the picture but there is a super cute little angel in the way. Did you know angels wear bunny beanies? Well they do!

Lil' angel face loved running through the trees with the cousins

Not only does that baby pick out great trees but she is also a Christmas tree decorating extraordinaire! Just look at that concentration

Chris and I are so excited this year because we will be using this amazingly crafty advent calendar my amazingly talented mom-in-law made for us a couple of years ago

She gave us a nativity set, the different pieces go in the pockets and every year she gives us candy to put in the pockets, alternating between candy and a nativity piece for each day in December. In past years, Chris and I ate all the candy in one day, which used to serve us well and was pretty good. Oh, but look at that face, it makes it holding off on the one time sugar high to let Lil' Boss open one pocket everyday...worth it!

I got cute little cards off the good ol' intra-net and I photoshopped the name of the nativity piece and corresponding scriptures to read right onto the cards

The candy part is really working out for Elanora but the scripture part is a little challenging. She doesn't like to hold still very long. She likes to flip the scripture pages and as we read she says, "No (pushing the scriptures away), candy, candy, CANDY" then proceeds climbing up the couch to sneak candy out of the pockets