Before Christmas

In the weeks leading up to Christmas we kept busy with a multitude of things:

First the Christmas tree (which we found in ten degree weather after visiting FOUR tree lots):

Papa and GiGi came for a visit:

And we braved the cold weather and went to the Botanical Gardens (Drew could have watched the trains all night):

For the first time I actually bought a gingerbread house kit and let the kids go to town and they actually kept it quite clean and did a great job at decorating it:

We also had pajama day at school and the kids, with no urging from me, decided to wear their matching pajamas:

Got to enjoy these moments while I can still get them!