Christmas is magical

Well, we are brave souls. We went and chopped down our Christmas tree on Sunday and then put it up when Caden was napping. We did the lights on the tree at the same time. We waited until Caden was awake to decorate the tree. To say our tree is unbalanced is the understatement. On the top half, we have lots of ornaments that all have different significance. We don't theme our tree, we just decorate with our collections of ornaments. We let Caden help. Oh boy! He has some sesame street ornaments that we let him hang up at his level. He likes to name them all every day. In fact, when we get home each night, he runs to the tree and pulls off elmo and carries him to the tv, then asks to watch elmo. I make him hang the ornament back on the tree before he can watch elmo. Cruise to the North Pole - we went on a cruise to the north pole to see santa. It was actually on lake Coeur D'alene. When we got to Santa, his house lit up and it was snowing. Santa read off a list of all the good kids, and Charlie, Caden & Annie were all listed. I guess Santa is coming to our house this year. Oh and for any of you Sigma Kappa ladies out there, it was the same concept as the fall cruise, but there was no green X on our hands, and there was no dance floor. :)

Before we got on the cruise boat, we walked around these shops and Santa's sleigh was there. It was empty and Charlie said he wanted to go see the sleigh. So we piled all the cousins in the sleigh. Caden was a bit angry and upset because he now has a real strong attachement to his pacifier, which he calls binky. Hence the tears, no paci in the picture please.