Christmas is Coming

Christmas prep seemed to start a little early at our house. Not really though...we did wait until after Thanksgiving, but now we are ready. Not only does Christmas mean celebrating the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ, but this year it brings another birth. Our second child should be coming within days of or after Christmas. So, we have been trying to get all the prep out of the way so we can focus on baby when she comes.
First our annual trip to see Santa. And for the first time, there were no tears. See last year! Instead, he hopped up on Santa's lap and started spouting off all the things he wants for Christmas. A big McQueen, a Mator, Trains and the list goes on. It was a lot of fun to sit back and listen. Too bad they wouldn't let me take a good picture and I wasn't paying for theirs!

Then, in our 6 years of marriage (this is our 7th Christmas together), we have never done Christmas by ourselves. We have always spent it at one of our parent's homes. This year, due to baby girl, we are not traveling and going to enjoy our own little family Christmas. So, to celebrate, we bought a real Christmas tree.
Getting it home actually went really well, no accidents or even near accidents.
We got it all set up and decorated. I prefer white lights, but we left it up to Harrison and he wanted color lights, so we got some color LED lights and they leave circles all over the walls. Good thing they are LED too because they stay on 24/7. Harrison gets up in the middle of the night to turn on the lights if we turn them off before bed. It is nice to have them though. And I love a real tree. It smells amazing!
And I made stockings too, because we don't have our own here. Luckily it didn't take too long to make 4, but I am glad I will only have to make them 1 at a time after this!
We also did some outside lights this year and Harrison has loved the advent calendar and getting to eat a candy every morning as we get closer and closer to Christmas.