A little Holly Jolly

And the count down is on! We are only counting until Christmas Eve here since we will start opening gifts at Matt's parents house at 10 in the morning, so that leaves us with just three days to go.....

Here is the photo of Cameron, Tucker, and Dallie on Santa's lap. This was taken at the church bazaar a few weekends ago....

And here is my newest addition to my Christmas decor, designed by my good friend Aimee...this is my third nativity set, but since it is the reason for the season, I may just go ahead and start collecting them!


A photo of some of our Christmas books. Each night in December we pick out two to read. I have about five different versions of "Twas the Night Before Christmas" but we love them all. Me being a teacher and all, my kids are pretty much book lovers/nerds whether they want to be or not. This photo just makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.


This is probably the most popular Christmas decoration in our house. I had to break down and buy this when Cameron was two. She loved it. It plays music, lights up and blows snow around inside the globe. Cameron even took it for show and tell last week. It isn't my usual type of decoration, but the kids love it.


And last, but definately not least, in fact, very much my favorite is Cameron's Christmas gift from preschool. She brought this home from school all wrapped in tissue paper for me. But then she got excited and opened it. Anyways, it's an ornament for our tree and it's her face on a colored angel. I don't know why I love this so much, but it just gets me excited for all of the handmade glue and paper and glitter that is to come for our tree. There is nothing better than kid made Christmas ornaments.

Tonight is Cameron's Ballet recital and I am getting ready to put some chili in the crock pot and take a nap with the kids so they will be rested up enough to survive the performance. Then after that, it's off to confession to prepare for Christmas at church and finally home. Busy day!