We are counting down the days and getting so excited! It's almost time for Santa to come!

A Great Excuse for Cupcakes!

Happy Half Birthday Hannah! That right, Hannah is 2 1/2 now. I guess we probably won't always celebrate her half birthday, but it seemed like a good excuse for balloons and cupcakes.

Reagan even got in on the acton. Yum.....cupcakes!

Breakfast with Santa again. This time at Chimney Springs. It was a great time. Reagan still was not up for a picture, maybe next year!

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year....

This is my absolute favorite time of year, and it seems so much more magical when you have little ones in the house to share it with. Hannah is thrilled with the idea of Christmas and seems to understand about the whole Santa and presents thing. In fact, she spent a great deal of her Sunday morning breakfast time flipping through the Toys R US catalog and exclaiming "I like that momma!" to just about everything she saw.

We had a weekend filled with Christmas festivities! It all started with Breakfast with Santa on Saturday morning. We all headed over to Hannah's preschool in the morning and enjoyed some pancakes, donuts, juice and bacon and waited patiently to see Santa. Hannah and I have been talking about this meeting with Santa for most of last week. She was very excited and kept telling me that she wanted to give him a hug and that she wanted him to see her "new pink room." I kindly explained that he would not be coming over to our house tonight, but that we had to wait for Christmas eve and even then I was not sure that he would be able to play in her room with her.

Hannah did great with Santa, got her hug from him and sat on his lap. She looked a little nervous but did great. Reagan, on the other hand, screamed when we tried to place her on his lap, so needless to say, we did not get any pictures with her and Santa this year. We just so happen to have another Breakfast with Santa next weekend too, so maybe we can try again then.

Later that day we ventured out to get our Christmas tree. We took the easy route and just headed over to the Home Depot, although one of these days when the babies get a little bigger, I would love to go to one of those places to cut down your own tree. We got a great tree and brought it home to decorate. Hannah was very excited and had a hard time waiting patiently while daddy got the lights on the tree. Hannah was very helpful with the ornaments and enjoyed looking/playing with them. Reagan was kept restrained in her walker, but enjoyed watching all the fun. We had a great fire going in the fireplace and some Christmas music on and it felt so festive!





We also got the rest of the Christmas lights up on the outside of the house and did a little Christmas shopping. Very productive Christmas-filled weekend! Now just have to get wrapping!