December

It is finally time to get ready for Christmas.  Somehow I got into the mood yesterday and now I am ready!  We got out Leah, our Elf on the Shelf, and she is already getting into things, like cereal, and making a mess.  Today she also somehow magically got the girls a gift!  Mostly because we are only giving the girls a few gifts and I bought this and didn't know who it could be from ... tada! And they have to wait until Christmas to open it, of course!

I saw a picture on pinterest of a kid in a bathtub looking like Santa and I thought to myself ... I can do that!  So here are the girls in the bath last night acting like Santa.  You can tell Summer was more into it ...

Pepper kept trying to wipe the bubbles off her face, silly girl!

I still have to take some "holiday" style photos of the girls, I tried this shot last night in the dark, it looks kinda near.

Here is the room with all the chaos, I mean decorations.  The tree, train, gifts, stockings, well everything Christmas is mostly contained to this room.  I let Summer put all the ornaments on the tree, I did the balls.  You can tell she can only reach so high because all the ornaments are around the lower center front/side hehe.

We started a new fun tradition this year, 24 nights of books.  Each night, starting on December 1st, taking turns (Pepper has odd nights), they get to pick one wrapped book, open it, and we read it.  So far we have opened 2 books and they are both enjoying it.  I got all the books at the thrift store and paid about 50 cents a book, not a bad deal!

We also have lights on our house!  We paid someone to do it :o( we aren't getting on the roof, are you kidding me?  I would have taken a picture last night but someone was parked in front of our house, which annoyingly happens a lot.  Parks in front of our house/walk way which is also illegal because it is right in front of the stop sign.  Hopefully they are gone tonight so I can go get a good picture!

Bring on the Christmas!!!