Christmas is Coming!

Decorating

I've been adding to our decorations and getting things done outside during Adrian's naps and finally finished the lights in front that I wanted! I am very happy to see them done, but it is cold and next year I'm going to do some of it earlier in November on warmer days! We even bought a christmas tree permit so we could cut down our own tree in Boise National Forest this year. It was between doing the fresh tree every year and buying a fake one that would last a long time and the girls had final say. It went well and we were safe because there was only a few snowy places in the forest so we picked a good time to go. Now we have done it once and only got turned around and lost once, we are going to be experts next year! Everyone helped decorate when Adrian started to understand putting the ornaments one instead of off, but went back to pulling them off and since he already opened one present, its all behind the baby gate now. Also, the count down has begun and they were sad that only one of our calanders have a moving mouse, so I made a snowman for the other one we have.

Visitors

We had family in town to visit and the girls were very happy to get more time to play with some of their cousins even though some of the days they had school. They had some fun games they created together and the cousin that is Adrian's age was fun to see them play together! I don't know if it was Claire's idea but he pulled Adrian around by the backpack for a while which was fun. There were also a few tantrums about sharing toys, but no big fights and everything was very fun, if louder than we normally have it here. There was even a cake because they have birthdays and choose to celebrate here with us! There was a small part of me that wanted to keep them out of school for one of the days to play with their cousins even more, but I didn't because they had a lot of time on Saturday and in the evenings to play. 

Party

Our Ward Christmas Party was on Saturday night with dinner, a shadow nativity presentation, bundt cakes, Santa Clause, ornament crafts, karaoke, and playing with friends. Shay was our crafter and made every single ornament that was available and Claire ran around the halls and didn't even do one! So fun to see how different they can be, especially since the very next day they dressed up for church to be twins and wanted to be exactly the same! I was running the karaoke for the night so I couldn't go see my kids see Santa and apparently Claire wasn't with them so Daddy could get her pictures, she went later I think. The girls did like all the bundt cakes that were available for dessert and I think mine turned out tasty if not a little sloppy. I didn't get a pictures though so you'll just have to trust me.