Santa

We got to see Santa at our church Christmas party last Friday.






Santa also visited our neighborhood the next day. He came on a fire truck.




The fire truck stopped and he got out and talked to all the kids. Andrew was excited to talk to him because he had changed his mind on what he wanted and needed to put in a "new request."
Timothy was shy this time and wouldn't talk to him.
So he whispered in his Dad's ear and then he relayed the message for him.
The babies just tried to ignore him.
Kylie even hid her face.
Brian didn't think he needed to talk to him again since he had already done it. But I did talk him into standing by him so I could get a picture.

Holiday Trees

Before we get to Christmas I have to show off our Thanksgiving Tree. We make one every year. Just to remind you how it works we take turns saying something we are thankful for. We then write it on a leaf and add it to our tree. The catch is that something can only be said once so each leaf says something different.









And now on to the Christmas tree. We put it up on one day and then decorated it the next day. The kids had lots of fun. We let them do almost all the ornaments so our tree pretty much looks like it was decorated by a bunch of kids, but it's beautiful. :) Good thing I'm not a person who needs a perfect looking tree. The decorations on the bottom 2-3 feet only lasted about 24 hours and the babies had them all off. So now it's only even decorated on the top half. But it makes us smile every time we look at it.

Merry Christmas!!