It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas!

The boys are getting super excited for Christmas.  We decorated our tree right after Thanksgiving, which always makes the house feel more special.

 James helped for about 3 minutes.  The little boys enjoyed the task much longer.

 This year we put the tree in our foyer (in front of the family room) which is working out so much better than having it in the actual family room, where all of the activity and traffic is (not to mention rough-housing and wrestling).

We went to the annual Christmas Tree lighting on post last week.  We've been three years in a row and the boys still love it.

 They have bounce houses, free cookies and hot chocolate, Rudolph...

 …and Santa and Mrs. Claus of course.

 We've been baking…

The boys' school has a Holiday Shoppe going on this week (a cute little fundraiser "store" with gifts under $10 for family members for Christmas).  Henry brought home wrapped gifts for all of us and one labeled "To: Henry, Love: Henry"  No one was surprised.  :)

Sherry Shaw and the kids come in town tonight and a bunch of us are going to watch the Army/ Navy football game together tomorrow.  Should be fun!

Hope your Christmas "month" is a happy one so far!