It's starting to feel a lot like Christmas!

Adele's Tree-

We FINALLY got our tree last Monday.  We all went to get it but it was Adele's year to make the final decision.  She was really easy to please and just pointed and said "I want that one". 

We brought it home and it had too big a trunk to fit in the stand.  It was a couple days before we were able to buy a bigger one. Then we ended going a date and not decorating it for another day.  By that point I just wanted it up.  It was not our finest decorating job...but they are all very happy with it.  They have been surprisingly good with the ornaments.  They do fight over the remote that turns the tree lights on!

 Our Church Christmas party was the other night.  Adele was so sad she did not get to sing with the kids, but got over it when she realized I wasn't shushing her and just let her sing along.  I always love watching the kids sing.  They were very cute.

There was also a Santa Claus.  I am not a scroog but I also don't really play up the Santa part of Christmas.  They needed no encouragement from me though to be excited about Santa.  They are funny though because right away Garret and Spencer said "he is not real".  It all started back in Buffalo when there was a very mean mall Santa. I had to tell them that he wasn't real so they didn't think that Santa's were all nasty. At the same time Anna's family went to disneyland and saw Captain Hook.  Garret said he did not ever want to go there if Captain hook was there so I said he was just someone dressing up.  At the same we went to Churck E Cheese and Spencer was terrified of the mouse so I told him he wasn't real.  As a result they are sceptics of anyone dressed up.  It hasn't affected their love of Christmas so it doesn't bother me!

It kind of bugs me when people ask kids all the time what they want for Christmas.  I figure we should go as long as possible with them just being happy with surprises before they started handing in lists of things they want. ( Plus it's hard to shop the deals throughout the year for specific things).  So I never really ask the kids.  When Santa asked.  Spencer said "toys" and Garret said "toys".  Then later added Star Wars toys.  It was fun watching them and listening to what they said.

I know there are really 13 days until Christmas but when I woke up this morning there was a letter waiting for me.  It said "On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me...a date with your true love (that's me)"  It worked better for the first day to be today (then I have been told it will get back on track).  Tyler and I decided to buy food storage as our Christmas gift and then keep Christmas really simple.  He is sly though and said that since all of this will take place before Christmas it's not a Christmas gift and doesn't violate any of the guidelines we set up.  I love that sneaky man of mine and can't wait to see what the twelve days will be.

Tomorrow I get to start my countdown with the kids.  We have a Christmas party coming up this week.  The calendar is filling up, the kids are excited, the Christmas tree lights are always on, the music is playing.  It is starting to feel a lot like Christmas around here and I love it!