On Monday night, we put on our Christmas smiles and headed to see Santa! We saw him up at The Club just like last year and the year before that. My crew was looking holiday sharp!

The boys were excited to see Santa and practiced what they were going to tell him they want. When we got there, Maxwell went right on up and sat on his lap – but you could see how stiff and nervous he was!

Sweet boy. He told Santa he wants Legos – lots of Legos!  🙂

Like last year, Spencer got a bad case of stage fright! This is a close to the jolly man as he would get! He did manage to tell him he wants a green excavator though.

Samantha surprised us all and sat contently on Santa’s lap for quite a while!

She didn’t tell Santa anything but the boys think she wants a baby doll.

After our visit, we were the first ones into the ballroom for the Jingle Bell Buffet!

I’m glad we got our important Santa visit in!

Ho Ho Ho!

The candy house! One of my very favorite Christmas traditions! We might have been feeling pretty puny this weekend, but I wasn’t going to let the sickness spoil all the holiday fun! I had three – well, maybe just two – eager helpers ready to decorate! As the boys get older, it gets more and more fun. Here’s the previous candy houses – 2014, 2013, 2012

This year, we started out with plenty of candy…

plenty of good decorators…

and plenty of taste tests of the icing to make sure it was just right!  🙂

We then got to decorating! As always, just as much candy was eaten as was put on the house! Tis the season!

Poor Samantha wasn’t feeling very good at all so we thought a Christmas tree Peep might make her a little happier!

it worked!  🙂

By the time it was all done, these boys had a whole lot of candy piled onto that house…

and a whole lot of candy piled into their belly!

But, I think they did a great job. Best candy house yet, I’d say!!

No hard candy Christmas around here!

Merry merry!