Celebrating the Holiday Season Part 1

I've been so busy this month with school and all of the Holidays that I haven't had a chance to post in a long while. I'm going to try and do a series of posts on our holidays.

Here is a little of what we've been upto...

Our version of a white Christmas. It's been so cold here this month that our backyard almost looks like it got a dusting of snow.

Emily's First Christmas Tree

There's a Christmas Tree Farm near us where we have bought our Christmas Tree the last 4 or 5 years. My sister's family joined us and the kids had a blast picking out the trees. Emily quickly learned the word "tree". And for the next few days she would walk by the tree and point to it and say..."tree, mom." I can only imagine what she was thinking. Now we have a tree in the middle of our house. What's next?

My beautiful 21 month old baby!!

My last little baby is growing up so fast!!

We have our tree!! It's a cute one!!

The Kids...

I love this moment... Emily smelling the Christmas tree. Ahh..the smell of a fresh tree!

Decorating the Christmas Tree

Putting on the lights.

Big brother showing little sister how to put on the ornaments.

Finding an ornament..

Having a ball!


Emily's First Christmas Parade

The first Saturday of December brings the childrens' parade. Our preschool participates in it every year. It's a lot of fun. We decorated our bikes, put on our red sweatshirts and headed out early to line up for the parade. The kids had a blast. After we finished walking in the parade we grabbed lunch and then a chocolate chip cookie and milk and watched the rest of the parade from the sidelines. The parade always ends with Santa.

Holding hands with my nephew.

Beautiful girl!

SANTA's coming!!