Christmas Preparations

This past weekend was spent getting ready for the Holidays.  I can't believe how quickly they snuck up on us this year! 

On Friday evening, Brian's employerhad a nice happy hour where they invited families.  There were plenty of arts and crafts for the kids, pinatas and even a visit from good 'ole Santa.

Madeline was excited to see daddy's office and sit in his big chair!

Checking out daddy's lab.

Olivia's favorite event of the night was meeting frosty!

Madeline took some great swings at the pinata.  She got a HUGE bag full of candy - she has this pinata thing figured out!

Madeline was excited to see Santa.

But, Olivia, not so much!

On Sunday morning we got up and headed to the beach to take Christmas photos of the girls.  They had so much fun running around and we got lots of comments on how cute they were!  I have to agree, and we did get some super cute shots of them!

 

We capped off the weekend by getting our tree

Olivia thought it was really funny to hit the branches and make them wiggle

This one looks good!

Discovering all the fun ornaments.  We decided to refrain from putting many of them up this year as she has great interest in them all!

"Mom, take a picture of me playing this little guitar"

Madeline does the honor of putting on the finishing touch!

Cookies and cocoa in front of the decorated tree.  Madeline remembered this from last year and wanted to make sure we were going to do it again!

It is a pretty nice tree!