Wishing you all the merriest of days!
Christmas Eve
It’s here! Christmas Eve! We’ve been getting ready around here…
We’ve all gone to Christmas parties with friends…
we’ve all posed in front of the tree…
and we’ve all been acting in the spirit of brotherly love! 🙂
The boys kicked off their present opening yesterday with their Christmas Party with Mrs. Susan! The party was complete with popcorn and cupcakes for Baby Jesus. Perfect! She then let them open her gifts from her and, let me just say, she knocked it out of the park!
Rocket ship pi’s…
and GIANT firetrucks!
Talk about 2 happy little boys!!!
Thank you so much Mrs. Susan for the awesome gifts and for ALL that you do!
We LOVE you!
Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas Eve!
Candy House
On Friday of last week we finally decorated the candy house! I love doing it – even if it makes a huge mess and the boys eat more candy than they put on the house! 🙂 In both 2012 and 2013, it was really just me and Maxwell doing the decorating…and really more of just me! This year, Spencer got to get in on the fun and Maxwell definitely took charge!
Just like in previous years, there was a LOT of candy eaten and it wasn’t long until the sugar high kicked in!
In the end, we had a very festive creation and two happy boys!
Maxwell’s side…
Spencer’s side…
The back that I did a lot of…
and the front!
Best one yet I think! 🙂 Christmas fun!
Right down Santa Claus Lane
Happy Monday and Christmas Eve Eve Eve! 🙂 We’re getting ready for Santa around here – one box at a time! We did make a trip to see the jolly man last week and Maxwell got to tell him what he wanted. We were supposed to go the week before but then Maxwell got sick. He was trying to so hard to convince me we could still go that night but then finally, through sad tears, said he didn’t feel good and wanted to stay home. He was trying so hard to go because he was worried that he wouldn’t get to tell Santa what he wanted in enough time for his elves to make it! Precious boy. I assured him that we could go see Santa the following week and that would still give the elves plenty of time to make his presents!
Like last year, we saw Santa at The Club and Maxwell marched right on up and sat on his lap!
He said he wanted emergency vehicles – a fire truck, police car and ambulance. Hmmm….seems like I’ve heard that list before!
Let’s hope he’s been good enough! 🙂
Spencer didn’t want to get near Santa. Even the promise of a candy cane couldn’t lure him onto his lap.
So, we all hopped in and got a family picture with the man himself.
Santa told us that he likes chocolate chip cookies. Duly noted, Santa, duly noted.
Ho Ho Ho!
Oh Christmas Tree!
So, the outside of our house looked ready for Christmas…
and our mailbox looked super holiday-ish (Thank You Susan!!)…
so we had to get the inside of the house to match! Getting it done this year looked a little different than previous years but that’s ok. I went and picked out the tree by myself and, since we’ve taken a picture every other year when we got our tree (2013 and 2012 and 2011 and 2010), I had to take one of myself at the tree lot with our tree of choice! ha!
We actually had it delivered and then it was raining when it came so it got to sit outside for another day to dry. We finally got it inside and then I got sick. Then Robert went out of town. Then the boys and I were determined to decorate the tree on Wednesday only to get all the lights out and discover that half of them didn’t work. Well, after an emergency trip to Little Hardware at 5pm that night to get more lights we were finally in business! We fought through all the obstacles and ended up with the best tree yet! 🙂
Little Hardware had these neat, big, colored lights and Maxwell thought they were FANTASTIC because they had some orange lights on them. While I usually prefer all white lights on my tree, I have to admit that these colored lights are really fun and add just the right touch to our tree this year!
My “helpers” were a really big “help” and super proud of the tree when it was finished! They even wanted to go put on their Christmas tree pjs and take another picture!
Ok, Santa…we’re ready!
Have a great weekend!