Setting up the tree!!!

About a week ago, we put up our Christmas decorations and, of course, the tree! Here's a look!

Our new bay window was perfect for a Christmas tree, so that's where we put it!

The kids decorating while I try to hypnotize the tree. "you are getting VERY sleepy!"

Santa Boo!

This is the first year Elijah really could get into decorating the tree, and he did really well!

After the tree, Caeley and Elijah started working on their lists for Santa

While we started working on lists of what we wanted to get, we also started thinking about what we could do as a family to give! We came up with a few ideas (but that is yet another blog post!)

One of the things the kids thought of was to make pictures for the two kids we are sponsoring through World Vision. The kids we sponsor are exactly the same ages to the day of our kids and the same gender. Elijah was writing to Carlos from Honduras, and Caeley to Rafiku in India.

Caeley asked me to write down this note on the other side of the picture. It reads: "Rafiku, I'm Caeley. You don't know me and I'm four years old. Rafiku I love you!! Merry Christmas, Caeley" Now THAT is what Christmas is all about!