Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas....

Well as everything seems to do these days..... Christmas came and went in the blink of an eye or a twitch of the nose or something like that! I always think that I'm going to be really prepared and just sit back, bake cookies, sing carols, sip cider, gaze at wrapped presents, ponder the nativity, read Christmas stories and so on.... So very Norman Rockwell! Well, it never happens that way but it is wonderful all the same!
We stared the season off by cutting down our Christmas Tree at a tree farm in Bismark! Nate kept wanting us to get a bigger tree but we assured him this one would be perfect... and it was (except for we think they make Tim really sick so this might be our last year for a real tree .. boo hoo!)! After all of that hard work we ate a good greasy dinner at a little place in Bismark!

When it comes to decorating the tree, I always envision another "Norman Rockwell" moment.... Christmas Movie playing, cookies baking, everyone watching in awe and wonder, the littlest one placing the angel atop the tree while my adoring husband looks on.... all in front of a blazing fire! Well Tim tended the fire, Nate watched the movie, I don't think I got around to baking those cookies and Zac and Ben decided they'd rather crawl under the Christmas Tree and grab the ornaments that pleasured their little hearts as opposed to the ones that were nonbreakable that I was trying to give them! And oddly enough, there is no angel... and I don't think I remember Tim casting me any adoring gazes! LOL! Well no ornaments were broken and the tree was still standing upright when we finished so I guess you'd call the tree decorating a success even if it was a little chaotic!

Our Elf (elf on a shelf) ELFIE... came to visit the night we put up the tree and stayed until Christmas Eve. Elfie found several places he liked so sometimes he would go to the north pole and return to the very same spot! Nate left Elfie a Christmas list to take back to the north pole. I told Zac one night that Elfie would tell Santa about the "not so good" choices he was making... to which he replied, "it's O.K., I'm already on the naughty list"! Hmmmm.... I told him that if that were true he needed to work really hard to get on the nice list! I know I have some pics of Elfie somewhere!

Each of the kiddos had a Christmas Party at their school and had a wonderful time with their buddies! They each have such wonderful teachers this year!

All of these festivities led up to Christmas Day at Nana's (which is really Christmas Eve Day) and Christmas Day at our house! That will be my next post!!