It's Beginning To Look..

A lot like Christmas! Thanksgiving has come and gone, and it was a great one! We spent the day at home, and then went to my moms. We split Thanksgiving every other year 'cause it's just easier for us. That and since Christmas is spent with both sides of the family. We had some great food, and some great football! I always enjoy spending the day with my siblings. It's crazy how close we have all gotten now that we are all older.

Now that Whitnee is older I'm beginning to do more crafty stuff with her. We have made cinnamon ornaments this year with Aunt Kisa, Whitnee really enjoyed it.

We also made Handpring ornaments this year. I always get us a new family ornament and then get Whitnee an ornament. Well this year to save money I thought hey why not make her ornament. She enjoyed doing this as well, here is a picture of our sweet princesses hand.

We have a holiday buddy with a group of girls that also have May 09 babies, and I'm going to send one to them with there gift. So excited about that!

We are also doing and advent calender of sorts. I found this idea on Pinterest you get 25 Christmas books and every night they get to open one and read it. Well Whitnee already gets 2 books read to her every night and LOVES books so I thought this would be great, and it would be a good addition to her books. When I first started collecting books I didn't think I would be able to get 25, but hey I did. :D I want to do this every year, and now that I have them I won't have to buy any more in the years to come. Here is a picture of all her books.

Next year we will add The Elf on a Shelf,, I feel as if Whitnee is to young to really understand that concept so we will try it out next year.

Here is my favorite part of this time of here, the decorations. I LOVE decorating for Christmas it makes the cold weather worth it. I was so excited that we were able to get a new tree this year. I will show you a picture of our tree last year and our tree this year, it's like night and day and makes me so happy! I love big trees and our first one just didn't cut it. So here you go.. the first tree and then our new tree..

Now here is our new tree

It's half a foot taller, and so much fuller. :D Funny thing is I think we spent less ont he new tree that is better then we did on the old tree. :D

We also got new decorations for the mantel thanks to Michaels parents

Well I thought we would be able to see it better, but I guess not, we got some rope light with some white star garland on it. It looks really pretty all lit up.

So I went Black Friday Shopping for the first time with Makisa, and Hannah, it was so much fun and yet soo crazy! We had a blast and I think I have finally caught up on sleep. I will say some people are so rude and if you are going to be rude during this time of year you need to just stay home.

Whitnee got a video of Santa and she was soo excited to see him! I can't wait to go to Silver Dollar City and see him in person.

Yet agian as Christmas gets closer I'm so excited to see how Whitnee reacts when she sees her bike from Santa, and to see just her pure excitment about everything. I am also thankful that we have such a great family and they all live close, and they choose to spend Christmas day with us and with our Princess. I'm always amazed at how much they all love Whitnee and how much they choose to spoil her. We are so blessed!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, and are looking forward to Christmas as much as I am!