Thanksgiving and Christmas Preparation

We enjoy going to our cousin's house for a delicious, homemade, yummy dinner.

I love how she decorated too:) Fun!!

We usually wait until Rachel's birthday, December 3rd, to put up the tree, but I couldn't wait this year. We put it up this weekend. Our neighbor friends helped decorate.

We have five stockings this year because our neighbors will be joining us for Christmas so Santa will visit them too! We don't have a fireplace so we used push pins and stuck them into the wall. It works for us:)

Here is the great advent calendar my sister gave us last year. Each pocket has a scripture that we are excited to read every night.

My sister gave us this magnetic nativity. The shepherd and animals didn't fit on the cookie sheet so they are off to the side. The shepherd is also watching over the Little Pony too:)

Finished!!

Our tree is always decorated with homemade ornaments and pictures of my children. It brings back great memories. Not exactly fancy, but so fun to talk about each ornament, each picture, and remember the past.