Christmas Preparations

Time for a massive catch up blog post capturing some of our many Christmas 2013 preparations.

We went down to Waltham to decorate gingerbread houses with these old friends before they moved.  We will miss them!!

Finished products about to be devoured

Random cute Lucy pic had to be included

This was our first year staying at our house for Christmas.  Thus, we wanted a real tree, and Scott really wanted to cut one down ourselves.  However, time was hard to come by and we didn't actually get out to get one until Dec. 14th.  

We went to a tree farm here in Billerica, but the cut your own field had been closed for the season.  So we ended up getting a pre-cut one.  It was still pretty fun.

And they had free hot apple cider.

Everyone was super helpful in getting the tree all set up.

Alan took charge of the decorating and loved it.

We had a super fun ward Christmas party.  Seriously one of the best ward parties I have ever been to.  It was a "Polar Express" theme and was so cute and well planned.  The kids wore their jammies.

And got to meet Santa!

They pretty much loved it.  He asked if they had been good and checked their names off the (ward) list.

Alan had seen a video of him decorating cookies with Grandma Robertson a couple of years ago and really wanted to do that again.  He even got to help make the cookies this year.

James enjoyed the decorating process as well

And of course, the eating part was pretty fun too.

Lucy and Grandma

Alan was Joseph at our Joy School nativity play this year.

Knocking on the "door" at the "inn"

We have a pretty good group of kids here!  They did a wonderful job on the play and the songs.

And last, but not least, I did finish Lucy's stocking.  I may have had to run to the fabric store to buy the embroidery floss for the Christmas lights string at 5pm before they closed at 6 on Christmas Eve.  And I might have spent the majority of Christmas Eve finishing it, but we gotter done. :)