All things Christmas

Ugh!  I'm so behind! 

So, after Thanksgiving, we jumped into Christmas decorating and preparations.  It was fun to get all the stuff out since we didn't decorate last year. 

We've had these light up Santa hats for a long time.  Obviously, they're still a fave.

All the kids were excited to get out the Little People nativity set.  I love that it's "new" every year. 

On the 4th, we headed to our church for pancakes with Santa.  The kids LOVE this event.  Look at this pancake, and you'll see why:

What's not to love about a pancake covered in candy?!

And it's always great to enjoy them with your best friend!  Jonas's BFF, Rylan, was there too.

 The best we could get with Santa.  I was just happy that I didn't have to be in the pic this year.

 After breakfast with Santa, we decorated the tree.  Jonas especially loved finding "his" ornaments- anything he's made in the past or that had his picture on it.  He's also beenfound frequently re-decorating the lower branches in the last few weeks.

 Poppy checked it out from below.  She said it looked good from down there.

I loved seeing how excited they all were to decorate for Christmas.  They also enjoyed hanging up the stockings and picking a pink one out for Poppy.  At Reef's request, we picked up some reindeer antlers and nose for the van.  There are no pictures of that, though, because we lost an antler on the road one day when the window was opened.  Oops!