Our tree is decorated!

Our tree is officially decorated!  Our lights didn't work this year so we got new LED lights which are very bright and vibrant.  We had fun getting the tree at greendbluff again.  Thankfully it wasn't snowy when we were up there and we didn't have to bring a sled.

I always like to see what ornaments we put on the tree.  Justin's ornament's are still in the original packaging from each year that he got the ornament.  Mine are wrapped in tissue paper and caden's are too.  Everyone's are separated and we pick which ones we like and add them to the tree.  It makes our tree look different every year. 

This weekend I made christmas cookies with my mom.  It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas....  Well, it has for a while actually.  :)

Merry Christmas!

Last weekend we got out the christmas decorations.  After Justin and I got married, I started collecting nutcrackers at Christmas time.  It seems like each year I have bought one or two.  This year I let Caden pick one to buy.  He picked the one in the red on the right. 

He also added a different hat and was walking around the house with it.  I let him know that they were for decoration.  It sure made me know how Clara felt in the nutcracker when her brother broke her nutcracker prince.  :)  I think we dodged a bullet on our nutcrackers breaking, but it sure was funny to see him play with the nutcracker.

I also bought some santa's last year, so they are mixed in with the nutcrackers.  :)

What's new with us?

 I love Black Friday!  No joke!  I love to find the deals and I love to see what I can find!  I was able to get pretty much all of my Christmas shopping done this year which is good since it seems I have no extra time!  I did two major shopping trips this year.  One in the middle of the night and a second one (with Caden) at 9am.  We didn't score the $150 tablet like my sister did, but we did pretty well.  We also just made a cyber monday purchase on Sunday night, so we are getting deals all over the place.

One thing I have noticed this year is it seems everyone wants to get in the Christmas spirit early.  I see a lot more people decorating this year, and the lights are going up on a lot of houses.  Even our neighbor Griffin put up Christmas lights.  We got our tree this weekend and it is a very fat tree.  It is taking up about 1/3 of our family room.  I am sure I will post a picture soon, but it is a funny fat tree.  We decorated our house for Christmas today.  We got out the decorations and went to town.  Caden was so excited and running around the house "helping."  The other thing we were able to do was fix some decorations.  We bought stocking hangers 2 years ago that you can put pictures in.  Well, they still say photo here... so we added our photos this year. 

Tomorrow night is our office Christmas dinner.  It is not even December yet!  I guess that is one of the many reasons why christmas is moving quick this year, we are doing things earlier this year. 

We also have not gotten hit with the snow yet.  Last year at the end of November we had a ton of snow!  Not this year!  So far, minimal snow, and none has stayed!  I am sure I will pay for that, but excited for now!

Caden helped me wrap some of the presents on Saturday night.  As soon as we finished he asked if Dad could open his presents in the morning.  I told him he would have to wait until Christmas.  He asked me to show him on the calendar when that would be.  You know it's a long ways away when you have to turn the page...