Visiting Santa

We took the kids to see Santa at Pro Digital photos in PG and it just so happened that our friend Jeri was taking the pictures. She emailed me this one of the kids. Lily sat right on Santa's lap and told him she wanted a baby. Calvin was a little nervous and just whispered to me that he wanted a Dragon Castle and somehow Santa heard him whispering it in my ear. It was amazing. Santa said his elves told him what Calvin wanted. I was pretty impressed.

Funny!

The other day Lily and I were going out the garage door to run some errands. The garage smelled kind of funny and Lily said, "yuck, stinky. Must be dad." I started laughing because Jon is always the one to blame for the stinky smells and I said, "Not this time, Dad is asleep downstairs" (He is working graves). And Lily replied, "It must have leaked up." I couldn't stop laughing, what a silly girl.

Super Lily wearing the cape Grandma Nancy made for her.

Chritmas decorations

We set up our tree the day after Thanksgiving and the kids had so much fun decorating it. They are at such a fun age. Jon's aunt Diane has sent him an ornament every year from the time he was a baby, he has some really fun things to put on the tree. And she has continued the tradition with our family and our kids. We love our tree because it has special ornaments from Aunt Diane. We have just added a few things of our own over the years.

We also wrote letters to Santa. Calvin wrote his own with a little help from me. We have a ceramic snowman bucket that the kids put their letters in and we tell them that when Santa gets here, he reads the letter and gets one of the requested toys our of his bag. I also have a couple little nativities that I love. The one on the piano has such beautiful detail and the other one is so little and cute. They are my favorite Christmas decorations.

Nativity

My mom gave us this cute nativity block set to make for family home evening. It is a nativity the kids can play with so that they don't want to touch my nice ones. They loved painting it and they love playing with it. Thanks Grandma!