It's Christmas Time!

This ever difficult semester is OVER! Brandon finished hard and strong...now we are half way done and very excited about that! He does such a great job at getting the things done that he needs to at school and squeezing in a little time for me and the boys as well. We are so proud of him and everything he is doing for our little family now and for our future. Now we're onto the next hurdle for school...comps (and the next semester of course)!

But before that all happens...we've enjoyed a little extra time together and having some Christmas fun! We feel like we've just about "done it all"...from hot chocolate and enjoying the snow, Christmas lights, to Gingerbread Houses (Gingee as Lincoln calls them), and Christmas tree decorating, to "Christmas Sweater parties" and visiting Santa as well as riding a horse drawn wagon to see a live Nativity and of course enjoying the Christmas music. We love this time of year to celebrate baby Jesus' birthday (which is what we've been telling Lincoln this is all for). He loves to carry around a little Nativity and even say "Nigh Nigh" to the baby Jesus that we have in his room. We are having so much fun with our 2 little boys and love that Lincoln is getting more aware of what this all means.

"Christmas sweaters?!?"

Lincoln loved decorating the "Gingee" houses...can you tell?!
(an activity at the Library)

our attempt at home...

We finished the "Gingee" once Lincoln went to bed, otherwise there
wouldn't have been any candy or frosting left to decorate it with!

Lincoln's favorite Christmas "toy" this year seems to be the Nutcracker ("Nut")

Helping decorate the tree! We went ultra toddler/baby friendly this year and made our decorations out of pipe cleaners, popsicle sticks, buttons and pom poms!

Our favorite little gifts already under the tree!Going for a walk with Daddy in the sled...
we did take him down a hill as well...he thought it was so much fun!

Grant's first visit to Santa...he did so well!

Lincoln asking Santa for a "wee-oo" (Firetruck)

Naughty or nice?!?

Waiting for the wagon ride to see the Nativity. It was FREEZING! We were too cold to get the camera out again when we were actually on the wagon, but it was a fun night and Lincoln loved being in a wagon that horses were pulling and being able to see baby Jesus.