Ready for Christmas??

We Are!!

Last weekend, we went to the mall to get our holiday pictures taken. They came out great, as you can see. I would have never guessed we would ever get all three kids looking at the camera at the same time more than once. I even got in our picture for our Christmas card in only two takes! Then we let the kids play at the mall for a while.

In other ready for Christmas news. We saw Santa at Ryan's school last week. I had been looking for a time where it was free and this was the first one that came up. They all did great. Ryan, who has cried every previous year, was waving and so excited. He told Santa that he wanted a new bike and new tires for his truck. Emma was in awe and quiet, but no crying! And Nick just wanted to stare at him. Ryan also wrote his letter to Santa this past week, another check in the list of things to do!

We put up our tree on Saturday. While I can't say it was the joyous family moment that we hoped it would be, it was pretty funny when telling people about it. Emma couldn't get an ornament on the tree to save her life and kept coming back for more, even though she would just return the previous one. Ryan kept most of his to a circle where the stool he was standing on was and once again we figured out that Ryan has about 7 First Christmas ornaments, while Emma has none. It is up and the house is decorated, check.

And the last thing I did - I finished my shopping!! Yay!! Ok - well I still need a few stocking stuffers, but all the other things are done. I've even started wrapping. I am just waiting on a package to be able to ship off all the PA stuff! Today, Ryan had his Santa shop at school and got his gifts for me, Kris and Nick. He specifically told me what he wanted to get Emma, so we have to go to the store to get that - but he used his own money. I also took Emma today to the store and she used her money for gifts for Nick, Ryan and Kris.