It's That Time of Year Again...

Decorating for Christmas is one of my FAVORITE things!! We usually start on Thanksgiving night. So many people started early this year. I was feeling a litte behind :). We actually did it over a couple of days. Here are a few of my faves... Making sure that they didn't forget to mark something in one of the toy magazines!
Have I mentioned that this girl LOVES her brothers??? Every once in awhile she'll just jump in their lap and love on them. I just think it's precious! This is NOT staged!The next day...We brought out the small trees. I will have to buy extras at the end of the season. This was probably their favorite thing that they did. Ahhh...the pooping reindeer. This thing has been in our family for a VERY long time :). It poops candy...who wouldn't love it?!

This is our "peanut tree". I THINK my friend Amy named it :). This was the first tree that we had after we got married. We put it in the entry with my FAVORITE special oranaments (homemade). I will NEVER get rid of this thing!!! Zane putting the star on top. H makes sure that every tree has a star. My sweet little elf :). We got each of the kids one of those little trays that has the days of the month for December and you open the door and there's a piece of chocolate in each one. We keep them under our little peanut tree. If I can't find Lydia, I KNOW she's in there trying to pry the little doors open to get the chocolate. I owe the boys quite a bit of chocolate!!

123 Smile...Lyddie PLEASE Smile!!!!!

I was feeling ambitious last night so the kids had baths and we attempted to take our Christmas card picture. Jared wasn't home but I thought, "How hard can it be?" Well, it's alot easier with two adults, that's for sure :). I got several decent ones and one that was really good (considering the monkey in the middle). I'm not putting the actual card picture on here yet. I know that you are just dying with curiosity ;). I couldn't ruin it for the grandparents! Lydia was a mess (and I mean that very lovingly). She had the boys cracking up. When the boys would laugh she would say, "Lyddie's funny." Zane decided that she's now the funniest kid in our family :). "I just crack myself up!!"
I thought this one was sweet. She's up close to "Sarisson" (what she calls him alot) and Zane looks so serious.We liked this one but Lyddie was looking off.