Gotta say I just love this time of year! Celebrating the Lords birth and all the fun things that go along with Christmas time. Today was December 1st and the boys and I decorated the house up for Christmas. I got a Door Buster Black Friday deal on an awesome artificial Christmas tree. We have been talking about getting one for a few years now. We love real trees but both suffer from allergies whenever we have the tree in our house. Plus the messy needles and sap on the floor was getting kinda annoying. Isaac was super into decorating this year. Our day 1 activity for our Advent Calendar was decorating the tree. Austin was pretty enthralled as well. We got the Christmas music blaring and just went to town :-). I also have been collecting children's Christmas books. We now have 25 of them and I wrap each one up and let the boys open one or two a day. They love it and look forward to the new book they get to read each day!