It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas!

Last night for family home evening we started off with a lesson on Baby Jesus, prepared and given by Elizabeth. She asked if she could do the lesson and she wrote up the whole story of the birth of Jesus, with pictures and props! Josh was recruited to be the sign holder and of course to play Joseph!
After the very good lesson we put up the Christmas tree. My mom didn't want to put up a tree this year with her busy with school, so we asked the girls what tree they wanted to put up. With living in my mom's house there is like 30 or so to pick from. They however picked their tree from our house. We have two tree's, mine, that have all the pretty ornaments on them and then there is the girls and Josh's tree that have all the fun ornaments, along with Josh's ornaments from when he was a kid! And the rule with this tree is I am not allowed to move ANY of the ornaments after the girls place them! (The thing is the girls put all of the ornaments in ONE spot on the tree and it just about kills me to not disperse them evenly all over the tree!) But I resist and don't touch them. This is the tree they picked to put up...the fun one, THEIRS! So we got everything out for it and put it together. We even have our first gift under it. Abby wrapped a gift for her doll and put it under the tree. Yes these girls are just a little excited for Christmas to come!
We put the tree up in the toy room and the girls were a little worried that Santa would not know where the tree was on the big night. So they asked to me talk to Santa so he didn't get lost in the house!

I just love the holiday season.