Santa came for an early visit

I made a call to Santa about taking pictures with the kids. He offered to come to our house so that we wouldn't have to get little Charli out in the cold. How sweet of Santa, but would you expect anything less? I invited my sis over and my brand new nephew so she wouldn't have to take him somewhere else...The kids were all very cooperative, well Skye (my nephew slept most of the time). Cason and Tyler told Santa what they wanted for Christmas and Santa told them they had been good this year - ha! Cason and I made some Oreo Dirt balls, which Cason had to share with Santa as an early snack. It was a great moment and I got some great pictures!

Merry Christmas.

Christmas Pics

So of course I don't have the money to really take the kids anywhere to get their pics taken, so I decided to do some myself for our Christmas cards. They turned out really good. Charli is the cutest stinkin Ms Claus ever! The boys are getting so big and don't care to take pictures but they did and they are so stinkin handsome. They sat in front of the fireplace for me. I fixed Charli up her chair with a back drop and she even cooperated. Ohhh I can't wait until Christmas. Santa pictures will be next :) HO HO HO

Decorating

Well its that time of year...we started decorating this past weekend and finished up Monday night. Every year we make homemade ornaments with the boys. We have made paper ornaments, painted ornaments, and the last couple of years we have made dough ornaments. I love a Christmas tree with all handmade ornaments, especially when most of them are ones the boys made. It makes the most beautiful Christmas tree ever! Its fun to look every year at their ornaments from past years and see their artwork progress. This year I decided since the boys were a little older to do something a little more grown up. We painted glass balls. They turned out really good. The boys had fun decorating the tree and Charli had fun laying there watching. She was being so good I decided to take some pictures of them with the Santa hats - they turned out GREAT! Can't forget the sausage balls we made while decorating - yum yum. I wish every night could be like tonight. I have put up some pictures of our night - enjoy and Happy Holidays!