Decorating for Christmas

We got all of our holiday decorations out the day after Thanksgiving and had a blast putting them up together. We did however wait a while to put our ornaments on. We were having company over with plenty of young kids and we didn't want the temptation there.

The boys are getting very excited about Christmas and are literally counting down the days until Christmas. We had to create an advent calendar this year for Quentin. He kept thinking that since we were in December then Christmas would be that first day. He is finally figuring out that we still have some days to go, but looks forward to ripping another chain off of the link. He was also given this really cool 12 days of Christmas nativity picture, where he gets to open a new envelope each day with a new thing to add to his nativity. He wakes each morning excited to open another envelope to see what he gets to do today.

Cyrus seems to be understanding a little bit more each day as well of what Christmas is and what is involved in it. It is so fun to see him realize what is going to happen and to get so excited about it.

Yesterday we were given the opportunity to do some shopping for some boys in our ward. It was so fun to have the boys wander the store looking for the perfect gift to give them. When we mentioned giving gifts to others in need, they got so excited and couldn't wait to go shopping. Every day they would ask, "Can we go buy the gift today mom." So we had a great time doing this and were excited to teach our kids the importance of giving and helping others in need. We hope to do this every year with them.

We also just got plenty of snow today and I will hopefully have some fun pictures to put up for you soon. The boys had a lot of fun making a snowman and a big fort.