It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

We've been having so much fun so far this Christmas season.  Christmas is so much fun with little kids!  They love doing all the christmassy stuff that I like to do.  Ryan just doesn't love sipping hot cocoa next to the tree like I do - but Lucas and Paige do.  We've been watching Christmas movies, and listening to Christmas music, and making Christmas cookies all month long!  I love Christmas!

We started off the season by decorating the Christmas tree.  We actually did it on Thanksgiving morning while the turkey was cooking.  I let the kids put the ornaments on the tree themselves, which was really hard at first, but they were having so much fun I just went with it.  They aren't very evenly spaced, but it still looks pretty.

Something about Christmas makes me want to bake stuff.  Lucas and I made sugar cookies.  Lucas did a pretty good job decorating them.  He's getting better and more coordinated.  I did help him a little bit though.

 I got a cookie press for my birthday so Lucas and I tried out making spritz cookies too.  They were so much fun to make and are the cutest little cookies I've ever seen.  They look a lot smaller in person than they look here.

 We also decorated a gingerbread house.  The kids always love doing this.

And of course I just had to get pictures of the kids in their cute Christmas outfits.  And I can't really narrow down the pictures so you get to see them all.

Isn't she just the prettiest little girl you've seen?

Such cutie little kids!

Today I've been wrapping presents and listening to Christmas music and getting ready.  I've been going all out with pretty bows this year.

Logan has been loving getting in to stuff under the tree now that he can crawl.

And he's been pulling up on stuff lately too.  If he had his way, he would be walking already.

I'm so glad that he fits in these candy cane jammies we got for Paige.  And now Paige fits into the ones we originally got for Lucas.  If only I'd bought one in every size, then Lucas could match them too.  I love kids in jammies!

Especially Christmas jammies in front of Christmas trees!

I'm getting so excited to see our family in Utah.  And I can't wait to see these cute little faces light up on Christmas morning!  It really is the most wonderful time of the year.