We got this advent calendar at Kohl's this year and I LOVE it! I filled it with treats and activities for the kids. McKayla opens the odd days and Seth the even days. They're going to open 25 together.
This year we got a HUGE Christmas tree. I've always wanted a great big tree but this was the first year our ceiling would allow it. So the four of us headed out and found a perfect 10 foot tree.
We were a bit behind this year but we took tons of pictures for our yearly Christmas card. Here are some of the shots from the card and a few that didn't make the cut.
We have a Christmas tradition that I'm sure you've heard of, "the Elf on the Shelf". Every year at Christmas time he comes to visit us to keep an eye on Seth and McKayla. Each night he flies back to the North Pole and reports everything he has seen and heard to Santa Claus. Each morning he is in a new spot in the house. The kids love waking up and searching the house for him. Here he is on our tree.
We got lucky this year and Nana and Grandad (my mom and step-dad) came to visit us for a few days. While they were here Justin and I had to go to his work Christmas party so while we were gone the kids and Nana made a gingerbread village together.
This year we headed up to the Havana Holiday Festival. We didn't make it in time for their Christmas parade but we still got to do some other fun activities like playing in the snow, seeing santa, and playing in the hamster ball.
Today we did somethng that ended up being alot more fun than I expected. Downtown Tallahassee has an "ice" skating rink each year. I say "ice" because it's not ice at all but some kind of weird plastic stuff that you can use to skate on with ice skates. I think it was actually harder to skate on than actual ice. We decided that if the kids liked this "ice" skating then one day soon we would make the drive to Jacksonville and go to a real ice skating rink. Well, they loved it!
We've also done several of our other Christmas traditions this year. We wrote letters to Santa, the kids picked out gifts for daddy, we had our Christmas camp out (all 4 of us sleeping in the living room with the Christmas lights on), and we drove around looking at Christmas lights. We even got to see this AWESOME house in Southwood (neighborhood in Tallahassee) that won best Christmas lights in the nation on Good Morning America. Please check out this link. I promise you won't be disappointed.
Tomorrow we will have lunch at Nani and Papa C's (Justin's Granparents) house and then we will have dinner here at our house with Mimi, Papa, Meghan, Jeremy, and their dog Otis. We'll make chocolate chip cookies and snickerdoodle cookies for Santa. I can't wait to watch the kids open their gifts from Santa. I promise not to take to long to make that post.
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