Christmas

We spent the entire month of December getting ready for Christmas. We got our tree the first weekend of the month and started baking and decorating.

We did LOTS of baking: 1 batch each of pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, cut out sugar cookies, spritz, and Anne's sugar cookies; 2 batches each of shortbread jam cookies, peppermint mocha cookies and pumpkin bread.

The gingerbread house we decorated

Hannah had a hard time understanding how long it was until Christmas, so we made a paper chain to count down. So helpful!

A new tradition we started last year was doing a Jesse tree. There is a book we read each day of December until Christmas and an ornament to hang on the "tree" each day too. Each story is a from the Bible, tracing the lineage of Jesus back to Adam. This is the book we use: The Jesse Tree by Geraldine McCaughrean

Hannah's preschool Christmas Program. She is on the top row, third from the right in the red sweater

Our beautiful stockings, all made by my mom. She rushed and got Caleb's done just in time!

Hannah got her very own doll house made by her Big Mimi (great grandmother). It truly is a work of art

Christmas Morning!

Chris got Caleb his first football

Nono and Nona spent Christmas day with us. Nona's present was snuggling with this little guy

We finished off the evening with a delicious dinner with my Mimi, Papa, and in-laws. The living room didn't look too bad by the end of the night (notice Caleb is sleeping on Nona again). Still trying to figure out where to put that doll house.