Friday, December 10, 2010

Christmas is Coming

Christmas is on the way. Liam is full of questions...How big are elves? Who fills the stockings? Do you really call Santa? Why did I see you putting things under the tree last year? Caleb just says, "Ho Ho Ho! Santa." He wants Santa to bring him a ball and a lightsaber of his very own. Daniel on the other hand has made lists. He says that some of the local Santas are not the real one. We tell him they are Santa's helpers.

It's a busy season, but we are doing our best to get ready!

Liam's preschool group put on a little Christmas program. They had fun singing Christmas songs. Their favorite was Jingle Bells.Liam was Joseph (fitting since Joseph is his middle name) in their performance of the Nativity.
And of course there were Christmas treats. This is the Santa Train that Liam made.
Speaking of trains and treats...We made our traditional gingerbread train. That's a lot of candy!
Our boys' favorite part of decorating the Christmas tree, is always putting on the ornaments with their pictures. (We add a new one each year, which they love, but they get really excited to find their baby picture ornaments.)I refused to decorate outside until I finished inside, so the boys decided to help. I love how all of the ornaments in the tree are on the bottom. A few days later we used a ladder to cover the rest.
Daniel took part in his school's Winter Spectacular. He did a great job (the red and white striped sweater). His class sang Jingle Bells in Spanish and another Spanish song (something about colors and animals).
The boys worked hard to butter-up Santa with some very decorated cookies.
We visited Nathan downtown and he took us first to the huge kids' section in the downtown library (my boys' dream come true!). And then to the Christmas tree lighting at the capital.
Santa and Mrs. Claus were there! (So was David Archeletta. He sang a few songs and we wish we could have followed him back to Utah to hear him sing with the MoTabs.)
There is so much fun in this busy Christmas season. I love it. Christmas is for parents--it is so great to watch the kids having fun.

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