How We Have Been Filling Up Our Days Around Here!

I am still not ready for Christmas to be here! Are you? I still have wrapping, baking, buying, cleaning, and crafting to do! We still haven't been able to do our traditional driving around looking at all the Christmas lights, while drinking hot chocolate/coffee, and singing Christmas songs. We have, however, been filling our days with some fun, festive things? Ugh, coffee has not kicked in yet and my brain is obviously still  mush, so I can't come up with anything better than things right now...sorry! Anyway, here are some pictures of the fun we have been having!!

The girls unwrapped their "make it yourself advent books" and spent the night creating their own Christmas story.

We had a Maggie Moo birthday party to go to and it was fun and tasty...

Can you guess which ice cream she chose to try?

Their famous "blue" cotton-candy...

So glad my will power won out over my temptation to try her blue ice cream!

My mom, niece, and sister came to my house for the weekend and we made Christmas crafts....and a big mess...

My niece Haley...AKA "Ruby Sue!"

The boys were too cool for crafts so they played games on the Ipad instead...

Maybe next year baby Cali will be able to craft with the girls, but for now she is just going to have to lay there and be cute and get lots of attention...(this is when it was time to clean up the crafting mess)

Thankfully we were able to squeeze in buying our Christmas tree...

And the whole family came with us....

My daughter Brittany, her husband Jake, and my Granddaughter Cali...

My hubby and my son Toby...

My mama and my sister Melissa...drinking the free hot chocolate...

Me and my honey with our tree....

Every year the kids play chase Toby through the Christmas tree lot and "No," it does not bother the other customers or the owners...they think it is just as fun and cute as we do!

 I finally got my Nyla to stop running so I could take a picture of her...

 Kenny is hiding so she won't be caught...

Next year Cali will be able to run around the lot and chase Toby too...

Finally, we (and by "we" I mean my husband and my son) got the tree up and we are heading to my daughter's Christmas play! But that is a post for tomorrow, this has already turned into a small novel! I'm off to wrap more gifts, bake, cry, shop, etc. Hope everyone has a wonderful day!!