Gearing up for Christmas... The girls are so excited about Christmas this year! They are counting down the days! We have 3 different Advent Calanders this year so they know exactly how many days until Santa comes!

Our neighborhood had our big Christmas party on Friday night! Santa was there and we even had a snow machine! It's the very first time the girls have ever seen anything like it so they were in heaven! Now they keep asking us when we can go see more snow somewhere. It wasn't a huge amount of snow but it was enough to have a good snowball fight and Allison had a blast sledding on a cookie sheet someone had left at the party. It was freezing that night so we didn't have to worry about the snow melting at all! We were all bundled up and only lasted about 2 hours. Anne didn't even mind wearing her jacket and her "mittens with meatballs on them and the hat with the Chinese writing". That kid cracks.me.up.

Rudy doesn't usually feel too jolly around Christmas because we dress him up in all the festive crap that he hates.

I love sitting at night with just the tree lights on! It looks so pretty! The girls did a great job helping with all the ornaments.