December fun! Lots of it!

We were so excited to put up the tree, a new one that was only supposed to have one light go out at a time not entire sections. However, a entire section went out. I was OK with just adding lights but when Mike mentioned we could get a real tree and I then said "Christmas tree farm" it was over - we were off to the tree farm. Eli was so excited!

Most of his excitement was because to him farm means "farm animals". This means we drove for 45 minutes to get to a tree farm that had a petting zoo.

He loved the peanuts!... eat the entire thing (shell and all) just like Mama and Papa.

"How about this one mama... I found it!" (it was a little short and a not very full)

When we got home and it was all done, we ended up with three trees in the house.

Eli loved watching Mike cut down the tree. I think we heard "Papa cut down the tree" 20 times.

Wrigley was not sure what to think and has had a hard time understanding why he can chew on sticks outside but not on the tree.
Oh how things change - we have an entire shelf of "kid" Christmas stuff.

Moving onto Christmas cookies. Everyweek we made a different kind. I did not get pictures of the sugar cookies which is too bad. I have to say they were very pretty!

Mouse cookies... cute but not very good.

First snow of the year. Eli was so excited we were outside about 5 minutes after he got up!

few family pics are in... can't wait for the rest

Although we had our traditional family pictures taken this month, we are not sending out cards this year (sorry). We thought we would wait until Isaac is here and send a family picture/birth announcement then. I can't wait to get these prints and update our pictures in the house!