It's the most wonderful time of the year! Danny and I both looooove Christmas, and we hope to pass that love onto our children. We have already established certain traditions, and Christmas decorations are up no later than December 1. This year we started early, since we are spending Christmas in Fredericton, and we wanted to be able to enjoy our decorations before we leave.
Yesterday was December 1, and we brought home our tree. It is the biggest, fattest tree we've bought yet... and we've had some pretty big trees! I don't know how we're going to beat this one next year... but we'll try!! :)
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| Here she is... hard to capture her largeness! |
While the girls were napping today, Danny and I decorated it... she's a beauty! :)
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| First go the lights... |
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| Star on top... |
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| All finished!! :) |
So there's the tree... Gracie likes it, and Ella loooves it! She just stares at the light... it's so cute!
Gracie kinda sorta understands Christmas. We have our very own "Elf on the Shelf," and she knows he flies back to the North Pole every night to report to Santa. We've also told Gracie that the only way Santa brings toys is if you leave some for him to take with him. She's already picked out 3 toys to give away... they're all Ella's! :)
I think Gracie's favourite part of Christmas is the Advent Calendar... she gets to eat an entire chocolate every single day for 24 days!! She gets quite excited at supper time, cause she knows it's almost "add-int cow-a-der" time!
The one downside to this time of year is the never-ending everything that goes on! Shopping, decorating, wrapping, baking, visiting, card-making... all on top of regular every-day life. This makes me exhausted... because I have apparently yet to return to my pre-pregnancy energy. This will be the first time in 2 years that I haven't been pregnant at Christmas, but yeesh, I'm so tired, you'd never know it!! :)
And there... my brain just shut off! Guess that's enough for now!! :)
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