Pre-Christmas Festivities

Christmas was so much fun with Collin this year. He is finally at a age where he could understand Santa Claus and the Nativity Story. There was so much excitement in the air! We got to do lots of fun activities to celebrate the season.

As mentioned in my last post we decorated the house and tree and made cookies with Boppi. We also saw Santa for the first time that season at Bass Pro Shop.

We had our ward Christmas party on December 18th (which just so happened to be our anniversary as well) The theme was "A night in Bethlehem" and Derrick got to star in the nativity presentation as Baby Jesus (he was the youngest baby in the ward at the time). Consequently Michael and I got to play Mary and Joseph.

We all wore our Christmas red the Sunday before Christmas. The boys looked so handsome and I was happy that they behaved for a picture in front of the tree. Although if I remember correctly I think there was promises of a treat after

We joined Michael for part of his work Christmas party- the highlight was another visit with Santa. I was glad that we had our previous Bass Pro Shop Santa experience to warm Collin up to the idea of sitting on his lap. Collin loved getting to see him and this Santa was so sweet and friendly. And since there weren't many kids there Collin got a lot of attention from him.