Prep Time

I love prepping for Christmas. I love getting out the decorations, I love picking out a tree and I love love love Christmas music.

The kids were so great this year. It was fun to have three kids who were really into Christmas, especially our elf, Sticks. The kids loved running around the house in the morning looking for him and talking to him. I loved telling him was naughty and who was nice.

All the kids got to sit on Santa's lap a few times and tell them what they wanted. This was the first year that Taylor even would sit on Santa's lap and all of my other children decided to follow his example. Not one of my children cried this year and I was so so happy about that. Taylor, in the beginning, asked Santa for a Dollhouse for Lana or a Jeep for Dad. He didn't care if he got anything he just wanted gifts for others. It was so cute. After realizing that Santa needed to hear from him what he wanted or he was going to be surprised he decided on a race track that had fire. Drew wanted a Lightning McQueen racetrack. Lana wanted a dollhouse.

We got our tree from a tree farm not far from our house. We had a really good time walking through a field finding the right tree and then cutting it down. Taylor was so proud of himself for picking a great tree. I must say it was one of my favorites that we have had. I thought it fit perfect and was beautiful. Dave agreed with the exception that it was so pokey. It scratched his arms up, so bad.

It was a wonderful holiday season.