More Christmas festivities and pictures with Santa!

The advent calendar called for a movie night... we love those!!

And the next advent calendar activity was making a craft...

Here is Chase's official letter to Santa...

Carter finally finished this book! He did so well and I was so proud of him!!

He has turned into quite the little reader!

Every year we take the boys to Bass Pro Shop to get pictures with Santa...

This Santa was soooo nice!!! The boys LOVED him!!!

They were so excited to see Santa they didn't even notice his hair had grown from last year :)

The zoo and some Christmas activities...

One of my favorite things to see!!!

We had a really warm, nice day the beginning of December, so we decided to hit up the zoo..

We even got to see the rhino... he is usually never out!!

It was such a fun, nice, beautiful day!!!

The boys were watching a movie one night, and I looked over to see this...

Carter asked me to draw with him. I asked him what he wanted and he said something Christmas. So I drew the picture on the left... And obviously I am no artist! Carter liked it so much he copied it and drew his own! I was so impressed! He does not get his artistic genes from me!!

Carter's first letter to Santa...

Carter had Mr. Monkey from school, so he got to take him to Olive Garden...

We went and looked around at Union Station... Carter wrote another letter to Santa...

And mailed it to the North Pole...

Chase mailed one too!

We love this Christmas tree in Union Station!!

And the boys got to check out Santa's sleigh...

The trains are really amazing here!

Carter's was also very excited to get to see this... Santa Claus 3.
We LOVE Christmas time!!!!

It's time to decorate!!

I LOVE Christmas time! So the day after Thanksgiving, it was time to get the decorations out!!

So I turned on the Christmas music and we got started!!

Aunt Lisa sent us an awesome advent calendar. This was the first year we didn't go home for Christmas. We missed our families and friends a lot, but it was fun to start our own traditions and be together as a little family! She sent us this to keep us busy :) We had so much fun with it!

The boys had a lot of fun...

It was fun to see their reactions each time we pulled out another ornament...

The finished product!