It's the most beautiful time of the year!

I love Christmas and this year for our family Christmas is coming 2 weeks earlier.
Between recitals, preschool, packing and putting decorations I've been keeping myself pretty busy.

So traditions, traditions...

#1 Decorating the house and the tree
no pictures of this one, too darn busy about where to put everything to be thinking about taking pictures.
We put up our Christmas decoration on November 13Th, Couldn't wait one more day
The kids Love helping me out and getting all the ornaments and cute decorations out of the boxes
I am sorry to say that we have lost 5 ornaments. The most ornaments broken on one year and counting. Half of my tree has lost all of its decorations already, My dear sweet Josh thinks they are balls and wants to pull them out and play with them.

#2 write Santa's letter.
What does Julia want this year no doubt a Princess Bike. She has told me about a million times that Santa is bringing her one, that we gotta make sure Santa doesn't disappoints her, so we put put in a good word for her with the Old Man
And apparently Josh want a Handy Many tool bench, Julia is sure of that, every time the commercials for that toy come out, She makes sure to remind me that her little brother wants that toy and that he'll be so, so happy(EXACT QUOTE)




#3 Making our Gingerbread House


have to admit it is a lot harder now that there are four people who want to eat the candy before we put it on the house.


We had a major structural problem with our house this year, so it took us 2 days to finish it. The results, just lovely, even though we are missing most of the candy that came in the kit.
Final results....


There are still many things to do and I don't think we'll be able to have enough time for all of it. We have played on the snow, built a snowman, can you tell i built it and that i had no idea what i was doing...oh well, the kids loved it and that's what matters.




We been drinking lots of hot chocolate and watching Christmas movies on TV.
The kids favorite one: Sherk Christmas.

we still want to go to temple square and see the lights, let's see if we can fit it all in our tight schedule, after all we are leaving to Ecuador in just 10 days.