Daily Life with our two CRAZY girls!: We're ready for Christmas!

The girls were getting excited about Christmas even before it was Thanksgiving. The cute thing was, they weren't getting excited about getting presents. They were getting excited about decorating. They really wanted to decorate our yard and put up our Christmas tree. Our neighbors decorated their yards for Halloween so Grace and Lyla had been talking about decorating our yard since Halloween. One afternoon in particular they were talking about it and got themselves all worked up. They were telling me all of the things they were going to put in the yard. I finally gave them paper and pens and had them make a yard "plan". Unfortunately, I can't find it now. Not happy about that. Anyway, we went shopping for yard decorations before Thanksgiving. I tried to steer them in the direction of the classy, white light reindeer and white light tree decorations. We ended up with candy canes, two blow-ups and colored lights on the porch. It looked cute though. If it made them excited then I was fine with it. After all, we were decorating the yard for them.

We got home from Thanksgiving and immediately started setting out the yard decorations. After that was done we put up the tree. The girls get excited about talking about each decoration and where it came from and if it is "theirs" or not. They get a new ornament every year to call their own. Hopefully by the time they have their own house with their own tree they will have a special little ornament collection to start decorating with.

Last year they slept in the family room in sleeping bags with the Christmas lights on after we put up our tree. Grace remembered this, of course, and said it was a tradition and they HAD to do it this year.

Here are the pictures from our night of decorating. The yard picture doesn't actually show all of the lights. We added colored lights to the porch banister after this picture was taken. I don't have a picture of that.