It's Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas

After Thanksgiving, we hung out with the family for a couple more days, but after the family left on Saturday night, we set up our tree. Then Sunday morning we were able to decorate it. The kids were very excited to help this year. I got some new decorations and I love the color scheme for our tree this year. 

Benson really loved crawling under the tree, pulling the ball ornaments off and then playing with them under the tree. He's such a stinker this year. 

His favorite ornaments are the huge ball ones that are as big as his head. He thinks they are toys and keeps trying to pull them off. 

Tucker took decorating more seriously this year and carefully placed each of his ornaments. We were cracking up watching this sweet OCD child of ours. 

Tanner was able to hang ornaments high on the tree and he helped Dad place the star. He's getting so big. 

Bailey really loved helping with the ribbon and the other decorations.

She's a really good helper when she wants to be.

We also managed to take our Christmas card picture. My friend Katie came over and snapped it for us. I love it. 

We didn't use this one on the card, but I just love it and wanted to include it. 

I also took some of just the kids. It was very difficult this year to get a picture of all them sitting and smiling, but I do love this one of them jumping together. 

And reading together. 

Benson, always the stinker. 

Tonight we got to go our Stake "Nativity and Noel". It's this awesome nativity display, complete with a live nativity and a musical performance. I've been wanting to go for years, but it always falls on drill weekend. Well this year, it fell on November 30 and December 1st, so Daddy was around for the Friday night performance. We had a great time. The kids loved seeing the hundreds of nativities from around the world and they really loved the live nativity. 

Afterwards we took the kids out for a delicious dinner of Chinese food. The kids were so well behaved and they all really enjoyed the food. It was such a fun night and the perfect way to kick off the holiday season. Tomorrow is December 1st and we are ready for all the fun that comes along with this time of the year.