I love all our traditions!

I love Christmas time, mainly because I love all of our traditions.  We get the tree right after Thanksgiving.  We all go to pick out the tree at Jacks Creek.  When we get home the girls help me put lights on it.  Then they mostly decorate it, and they do a great job.  We also listen to Christmas music in the car every where we go for the whole month.  Hayden helps me wrap presents and she is very good at it.  We watch Christmas shows / movies every single night all together in the living room.  We drink lots of hot chocolate and eat candy canes like crazy.  We have two silly elves that create a mess every night.  They wear Christmas pajamas every night, well unless I am behind on washing clothes.

 I love that my tree is decorated with all their homemade ornaments and ones that they pick out when we are out and about.  It has every thing from Princesses to tractors.  I love that the kids picked out all my wrapping paper and none of it matches!!!  This is the first year I have been able to use bows on presents because all my babies are old enough to leave them alone.  Although it means that they are all growing up so very fast.  I love how excited they get counting down the days...Gracie puts a cotton ball on Santa's beard every night to count down the days and Hayden has a magnetic Christmas Tree that Mimi gave her.  They let me know every night how many more days!  I love that Hayden always wants to buy every one something really special.  I love that they ask every day if they can open one present.  I can't imagine where they get that from!!!  I love that they do know the true meaning of Christmas and that they love to talk about it.  I love that they pick out a Christmas book every night and we read it before watching our Christmas shows.  I love that they got their videos from Santa last night and their faces as they watched it.  It is truly priceless.  Hayden and Gracie made the nice list but little Colton is undecided.  He was told he had to work harder and be a good boy!  The girls were saying Oh my gosh, the whole time!

Most of all I love that I have a wonderful family to share it all with and that we have some amazing traditions.  I hope that my kids will do all the same stuff when they are grown!