Its Christmas time!

This was such a fun time of year with Hadley now that she is a little older. It is so fun having the "magic of Christmas" back, now that we have a child old enough to kinda get Christmas. Hadley's wish list was an orange scooter, pink camera with flowers on it, helicopter (at one point) and a big black horse. "And that's all" she'd say after she told ya what she wanted in a sweet little voice.
To get us in the Christmas spirit we:

wrote Santa a letter.
went to our ward Christmas party.
story times at the library.
watched lots of Christmas movies.
opened a new Christmas book from Grandma every few days.
decorated a gingerbread house.
visited Santa.
decorated a Christmas tree with dots.
Christmas party at school.
called Santa (aka my brothers, to threaten, I mean remind Hadley to be nice!)
drove around to look at Christmas lights.

This year was our year to be up in Salt Lake with Brandon's family. We new that wasn't happening with me being huge and pregnant. And now that Hadley is getting bigger we didn't really want to go anywhere. I started to get worried how this Christmas was going to turn out, if we were going to have a very quiet and lonely Christmas or what! My family told us they'd be down on Christmas day and wanted to try and make it here before Hadley woke up. We have the greatest friends here and a few invited us over on Christmas eve so we wouldn't be all alone.

We ended up having an early dinner with some friends and then that way we could all do our own things and traditions with our families that evening.

After dinner we came home and made our Reindeer food to spread across our front yard. So they can find our house for Santa.
Then we came in and read about Jesus' birth and tried to explain to a 3 year old why we celebrate Christmas.
Then we checked outside to see if Santa dropped off our first present and sure enough he did! It was Hadley's Christmas jammies!

Then we made our treats for Santa and left some carrots for his reindeer.
After Hadley was in bed... the fun began! I loved it, we wrapped presents and set up everything, watched a Christmas movie. And my parents surprised us and made it here late that night!

Here's how it looked before we went to bed.

Here we are before the madness began.

Santa hid her scooter by the TV to see how long it would take her to find it. It was so funny when she finally found it. She gasped and said, "my scooter! See I told you guys I wanted a scooter!"

She told me one day that she wanted to get her daddy a black stone. After a few days of talking about it we went out front and found a black rock and painted it for him. She was so excited to wrap it and give it to him, it was so dang cute!

We had the BEST Christmas this year and I have to admit it was so nice staying home! Brandon spoiled us, we had yummy food thanks to grandma and grandpa and now we are ready for baby boy to come!