The holidays this year were filled with many different things… Time to relax and enjoy playing with the boys, time to start “new” traditions and to introduce the boys to old ones. Time to cherish with family that we don’t get to see very often and time to hang out with friends that live far away. Honestly we got to spend a whole bunch of time appreciating what is really important and spending time surrounded by people that we love; to say that we are blessed would be an understatement.
Hope your day is full of all things merry and bright!
Christmas 2011, family of four ;)
The tree is up and in the house! It’s not fully decorated yet but the lights are on and I could sit by it for hours.
Jay was thrilled to “help” Daddy string up the lights and could hardly wait to rip open the boxes that held them. His helping turned into using the light strands as car roads but he was thrilled none the less and was so excited when the “kissmas tee” came in the house, his squeals and giggles were infectious.
I didn’t think that it was possible to enjoy this time of year anymore than I already did; boy was I wrong! Seeing it through your child’s eyes makes it a thousand times better :)
We got our tree, we got our tree!!!
Yesterday Jamie, the boys and I headed out to pick up our Christmas tree. This is pretty much one of my favorite days of the year- I LOVE getting our tree! It’s outside waiting to be brought in after it falls a little- can’t wait until it’s in the house and strung with lights :)
I love crafting; however, I don’t get a whole bunch of time to do it anymore. So this year, as an excuse (kind of) to be able to, I decided to make a good majority of our Christmas presents. I love getting things that are homemade from people; I love the thought and time that is put into those gifts. I hope that people we know do to, since I am probably going to try and do the same next year too! Although, in a perfect world I would start a little sooner in the year than I did this year. Check out some of the projects we gave…
Some of the things that I made but forgot to take pictures of included a “Grandma and Me” book for my Mom, a Perreault Memory Game for my three year old cousin (this was adorable and I regret not getting a picture of it… I’ll have to make one for Jay and take pictures), a frame with family pictures for Mimi (we didn’t make the frame but the pictures are all ours), dog rope toys, pickles- which Jamie and I made together (I actually did take pictures while we were making them just none of them packaged nicely and ready to be given), a delicious honey- cinnamon butter, homemade Almond Joys (that I may or may not have “tasted” while making)cookies, cookies and more cookies! I think when I added up my cookie total I was up to somewhere around 375 and that didn’t count the candy and other baking!
We took so many pictures over the holidays and I have been steadily trying to play catch up. I have finally sorted through all of our holiday ones so here they are…
Sit back, relax and stay awhile :-)
One week tomorrow is Christmas and we have had some busy little elves at our place getting ready for the big occasion, but I think we are almost ready. We just need all of the family to get into town so we can get this celebration started :-)
Here’s a peak at what we’ve been up to… what’s left to do on your list?
all of our packages have arrived
our tree has been picked
it has been delivered
and trimmed
the lights have been hung
the decorations have been put out
a few breaks have been taken to play
holiday goodies have been baked
and they have been taste tested too!
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is going to be so much fun this year!
the perreault family 