Our family has been busy, busy getting ready for Christmas!!! We've tried hard to carve out some Christmas fun over the last few weeks and we have more plans to celebrate Christmas in the days to come!
Our Elf brought the girls a gingerbread house so we could make him a home away from home!
The girls spent about an hour making his house just perfect!
We let each of them decorate a top and either the front or back. It was much easier to have them sitting across from each other and decorating their side rather than having them fight while we did one side at a time.
Gretchen had a little program at her school's assembly a few weeks ago. They sang two little Christmas songs and it made me thankful once again that I was at her school every day.
She did a really good job singing and doing all of the motions she had learned in music class. I was able to video the performance since DJ wasn't able to be there.
The girls have also been wearing their Christmas pajamas lots and lots!
We had an evening where we decorated the tree as a family, and all of us in our pj's!
Our Christmas tree belongs to all of us, so I feel that it's important that we decorate together. The girls get to put on the ornaments that we bought them as a baby, or that my mom has bought them every year.
DJ and I buy ornaments when we travel, and it's fun to look back at the memories we've made on trips and tell the girls story of where we've been.
Addy wasn't the best helper, so DJ kept her entertained with red beads.
The girls have lots of Christmas clothes! Most of their smocked dresses get two seasons of wear out of them, and I wait until closer to Christmas to pull out their new Christmas dress. And, then they wear it tons and tons around the week of Christmas.
I had the girls all matchy-matchy before church last week and I attempted a few pictures.
They stood so far apart and like little soldiers! Ha!
Then we tried putting Adalyn with her big sisters and this is what we got.
She was so mad that DJ sat her down, sos he threw herself down on the ground in a huge temper-tantrum!
Saturday evening, we took the girls to the Tulsa Christmas Parade.
We bundled them up, loaded them in the car and then drove downtown without telling them where we were going. The whole time we were walking toward the parade, and even as Gretchen so floats, bands, and people, she had no idea where we were going! She kept thinking it was a pet parade because she saw dogs dressed up all over the place!
She was really surprised and excited once she figured it out! We finally found seats, spread out blankets on the ground and waited for the parade to start.
The parade lasted about an hour and the girls loved when they were handed candy canes and tootsie rolls!
They would get up and dance when the bands came along or when the floats played music!
It was such a fun night and a new tradition that we'll have to carry on year after year!
I hope y'all are all busy making fun Christmas memories too! What are some things that you've done already and what's on your list to come?
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