Last Christmas Before Our Move

So it's the last Christmas in our current house and it's kind of sad!  Starting next week, we are going to be packing up our house a little each day until we move at the end of the month.  We are getting more and more exciting about our new home and the additional space and decorating to be done!

This post is just going to focus on our Christmas events at home... the next post will be pics from the grandparents' houses.

Due to circumstances of having a house on the market (only for 6 days though!) and then the pressure of house hunting, Christmas was not done the way I would have liked.  I have a little guilt about it but I know that things were just hectic this year and there wasn't much that could be done about it.

We decorated our tree right after Thanksgiving.  AR was really into it and super serious about hanging ornaments... W just thought they were balls to be thrown.

We had a little fun too!

 

Hanging my grandparents' angel tree topper.

The finished product and you can see that our elf came back this year.  AR really doesn't stick to names when it comes to giving them to dolls or elves apparently, so we still just call her elf.  This year she brought the kids their own pillowcase that they got to use throughout the Christmas season.  She'll take them back to Santa and bring them again next year.

 

I love that this picture captures how intrigued W is with his older sister... he always looks at her before copying whatever it is she's doing... good OR bad!

 We visited Santa at a local Chick-fil-A.  AR was great about sitting with him and telling him what she wanted (aka: a baby doll bunk bed with a place to hang her clothes on it).  W LOVED Santa... from a distance!

Our last visit with our neighborhood Santa:

 

The night before Santa came, we swapped family gifts. 

W loving his new guitar from his sissy.

Santa came:

 

2nd Annual Cinnamon Roll Christmas Tree

 Trying to eat after opening presents might not have been the best idea:

 

Other pics from December:

As you can see, W no longer needs assistance climbing onto his sister's bed - moved that chair all by himself!

We kept a friend's little girl earlier this month and AR was just loving it!  She kept kissing her, giving her blankets and toys, and just staring at her.  She wants a sister something fierce!