Oh. My. Gosh! I love how these pictures turned out! I love every single one of them. We had Foto Fly take the kids' pictures with Santa in the background!
The look on the kids face in this picture is my absolute favorite. I don't how many more years I will get of this, but for right now I am soaking in every minute of this magic.
Better not let Santa get those cookies!
We decorated our basement. The kids decorated the tree all by themselves and it looks so good!
Brynnli got to put the star on our tree this year.
and Makayla got to put our favorite (and most random) decoration on the tree.
Kitty the Elf came to stay with us for the month again! The kids were so excited to have him back and made him a special bed.
We decorated gingerbread houses. The kids are needing our help less and less. I didn't think it would make me sad, but it is just a reminder of how fast time is going.
Kitty even made a gingie house that night too!
We had to get a new tree for our piano room and I absolutely love it! I love this room, especially when the Christmas lights are on and Tyler plays my favorite Christmas songs.
Tyler gripes about having to put up Christmas lights on the trees every year, but when you're house looks this magical, you do it anyway. One of these years we will pay to have someone put lights on our house, but for now, this is perfect.
Oh Kitty, we sure do love this elf and all his fun magic. The kids wrote letters to Santa and Kitty delivered the notes Santa wrote back.
We have seen lots of Santa's helpers this month. We don't know for sure, but we're pretty sure one of them is THE real deal. We went to our ward Christmas party and Mr. and Mrs. Claus were there.
Caden wants the Lego camping set and Dogman Books
Makayla wants ear muffs and Cupcake Diaries books.
Brynnli wants a bouncy ball and a baby.
That same day we got to decorate cookies and see Santa again.
We went to Daddy's work kids Christmas party and got to see Frozen! We loved it and have been listening to the soundtrack non stop.
Guess who was at the movie theater? Santa! Again!
Ok, this picture is really bad of me (can we say big eyes?) but it was the only picture we took the night we went to see Kurt Bestor. This has become my favorite Christmas tradition and I'm really grateful that Tyler has made me so cultured.
We had a family day date and it was so much fun! We started out at Tyler's work Christmas party, then we went to Caden's basketball game, then we went to see Jenny Oaks Baker in concert (we're trying to get our kids cultured too), to end our fun day we surprised our kids with Christmas in Color! We waited in line for forever but the drive through light show was pretty great. Our kids thought it was so fun to stick their heads outside the car.
Do you know what I didn't love? Brynnli's butt in my face the whole time.
I think we may have to make that a yearly tradition.
Our cute Brynnie had her preschool Christmas program. I didn't think it would make me that sad, but this is our very last preschool Christmas program. I remember going to Makayla's first program and Brynnli was just an infant. Now here we are attending our last one, and I don't know if I can handle my kids growing up so fast.
Brynnli was so shy, but oh, so cute. She knew the words to every song, but would not give a smile at all.
We love Miss Aubrey and Miss Karly... even if Brynnli doesn't look it.
Brynnli also got to see Santa at her preschool and have a fun class party.
Christmas is magical. I wish everyone could see the magic that I see through our kids' eyes.
