Gearing up for Christmas!!

You tend to forget just how magical Christmas is through little ones eyes. Santa is real, you know. And Pete, our Elf on the Shelf , helps us believe!  We have started going on nightly drives to oohh and aahh over the Christmas lights and the boys even helped decorate the Chrsitmas tree!  (Side note:  Do you know how hard it was for me to relinquish control of MY Christmas tree to 2 little kiddos who tend to drop and break and step on MY precious ornaments??  I eventually made them their own pile of kid friendly ornaments, took a deep breath and enjoyed those 20 little fingers helping decorate OUR tree.  Their eyes sparkled and they swelled with pride after each and every ornament they hung.  Merry Christmas to me! )  We opted to leave the 80 foot(sliggghht exaggeration), pre-lit tree in its box this year and went out and got ourselves a real one.  Like we have always done.  Except this year, it was just the boys.  Well, the bigger boys anyways...While JDH took a snooze, Daddy and his bigger boys loaded up and headed out.  He let them pick out their very own tree and they actually ended up with a pretty nice, full and straight one!

 I.  Cannot.  Wait.  Until.  Christmas . Morning!!!