It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas...

So, we decked the halls as soon as we finished our turkey & dressing....the kids couldn't wait to start decorating--well, mainly Gracyn. She was ready to get down to business and make her Christmas list for Santa. She was such a sweet sister and did Hudson's too. :)

Here's Hudson's "Christmas List"

*Hot Wheels

*Paw Patrol?

*Legos

*???

*Coloring Books

*Puzzles

*Stuffed Animals

And

Gracyn's "Christmas List"

*Frozen stuffed animals

*Coloring books

*Frozen pillow

*Legos

And, here's what our tree looked like when I first plugged it in. :( Every year it seems to get worse and worse! But, it's still a beautiful tree...and I really don't want to have to pay $500 to get another one.

I just put some new lights on it--and it's as good as new!

She thoroughly enjoyed decorating the tree.

Her new ornament this year is Elsa--surprise, surprise!

Hudson got in on the fun towards the end.

They both LOVE the tradition of getting to unwrap a Christmas book every night. I'm so glad that I think ahead and wrap them all back up before putting all the Christmas stuff away every year. I barely have the time to wrap all the presents to go under the tree, let alone 30 plus books!!

This is the new ornament I made for the kids this year. They love them!

 Buddy, the Elf, has made his appearance again! Gracyn is so enthralled with him! The first thing she does every morning is look for him. And it's crazy how quickly she can spot him! So far he's only stayed in the same place once--he was having such a good time playing "Spot It" with Rebecca (her American Girl doll) that he just kept on playing another day. ;)

He was playing with the pom poms from her jar this morning....