Christmas Time

Oh how I love Christmas time. It is such a fun time of year and I just love the feeling of it. I love that we have so many traditions and we try hard to do lots of fun things. To start things off, we made a countdown chain so that we would always know how many days until Christmas. It was a lot of fun...and by the way, there are 11 days 'til Christmas!

Today we spent the day at Grommy's making cookies. Well, that's not entirely true. We did spend the entire day AT Grommy's, but Grommy and Mommy were the only ones making cookies. Levi and Mallory played all day, while Harper slept soundly in her swing. I was hoping the kids would want to help, but that only lasted about 3 minutes. I was shocked, but somewhat relieved! We had such a great time. I could hear Levi and Mallory playing "pretend." They went to work, they played with their horse, they danced and played dress up, and they wrestled. They really are the best of friends and I love the days where they get along all day. Levi was helping Mallory dress up in her princess dress up clothes and at one point I heard Mallory ask Levi to dance with her. Oh, it was adorable. They are such sweet kids....makes my heart melt!

One of my favorite things to do this time of year is decorating the tree and hanging our stockings. It ended up being kind of frustrating because we got a late start and we had a hard time with the lights. At first there was one string that wasn't working and then there was another string not working and it was just a mess. But finally, we got the lights up and the tree got decorated. The kids helped too, hence the majority of the ornaments at the bottom of the tree. :)

We have many more fun things planned. I just love this time of year!!