1 Month

Christmas Eve is one month from today, yahooooooooooooooooooo!

I am so excited for Christmas this year. Every year I think I get a little more excited. I am so excited this year (for no reason, really) that today I started decorating the house. Eric was sweet enough to get all my, I mean "our" Christmas boxes down from the attic last weekend. This morning Tyler and I went through all of them and started on the inside. So much fun.

I'd like to get our tree a week from Friday. I'd go for earlier, but I'm worried about it getting dried out. Last year we got our tree about 2 1/2 weeks before Christmas and it was getting dry by the time the 25th rolled around. I will say that last year we had an 11 ft. Christmas tree and even with watering it 2x a day, it was always thirsty. This year, we are going with a more humble tree. The 11 ft one was way too hard to decorate - I had to use the ladder. I say that now, but we will see what wins out when we go pick out our tree at the Christmas barn. Yep, we cut it down fresh. No comments on that one, please.

The kids and I made a list last weekend of all the holiday activities we wanted to do. This weekend I think we will open the festivities with 2 of our favorite movies. Elf is the #1 choice, and then the Polar Express will come second. Good times are ahead. The kids want to make frosted sugar cookies (as we do every year). Our kitchen always looks like it's been hit by a tornado after we are done with that activity. I think I found some red hots under our refrigerator recently, they were from last years decorating. Lol.

I am almost done with Christmas shopping - just a few more items and I'm hoping I can finish up this weekend. Yes, I'm planning to do my annual get up at 4:30 am to make it to the stores by 5am thing on Black Friday. I've already scanned the ads and have my game plan set in motion. Should be fun. I did just read online today that most stores will be offering the same items and deals online. What? What? What? It can't be true. Miss out on going to the store, no way! It's the thrill of rushing into the store. He he. We'll see what happens when my alarm goes off on Friday morning. I'm not quite as spry as I use to be.

Stay tuned for some fun posts and pictures!