These little goobers were so excited to get all the Christmas decorations up that they even let me take their pictures together and posed so cute :) (more on the tree decorating process later in this post…)
but that was short lived…
no more pics…the socks and shoes came off… 
my little santa…for the past couple of years we’ve put the kids in this costume – its a size 18 months but we make it work…lol…
ringing the bell at walgreens…owen was such a trooper..it was COLD that night
my little camel (and his stare down) dressed up for the special children’s service – they read the Christmas story and let the kids help act it out…
Making crafts with cousins! Grandma brought over all the supplies to do cool ornaments
putting up the tree and decorating it – the kids loved it! 
talking to her strawberry shortcake ornament
being a goof 
giving in to mama’s requests to smile nice :)
we love our fun little ornaments, quite the menagerie …this little biker boy is quite something…
scott’s little elfin friend from when he was 2 
our ‘’first christmas’ ornament from 2004
putting the star on the top…
i love everything about this pic…scott reaching over to fix the star,owen reaching up to ‘touch the sky’ and syd standing back takign it all in while sipping her ‘milky’ 
tilting his head to try to make the star look straight
and of course syd needed a shot at getting that star on there just right…
these next pics are on the night of the kids’ first ‘Christmas program’ look how excited owen was… :)
my two little cuties 
little syd in the front row…
singin her little heart out
each of the kids in owen’s class got to play someone from the Christmas story..owen was joseph and we got to hear in the weeks leading up to the program all about who was who – the kitties and kittens and shepherds,and mice they were all so sweet and excited! 
owen standing up for his part in the program…so proud of himself! :)
the teachers and kiddos all worked so hard to prepare for the program and it was the most adorable thing ever. the highlights for me were owen and his little buddy sitting in the back row prior to the program actually starting and shouting out ‘beef'!’ for no apparent reason! also, syd pulling her dress up and also picking her nose while on stage…yes. my kids are ‘those’ kids. and i wouldn’t have it any other way!!
we did also go visit santa at Home and Co as we have for the past couple years…owen was still a little apprehensive and syd was only ok with it if she sat on my lap…
