This is our advent calendar. I let Garrett pick out any candy he wanted to fill it and he choose little packages of pez.
So every morning Garrett wakes up asks what day it is and fills his little reindeer pez dispenser. I've never seen a happier child. 
Here's our beautiful Christmas tree that we went and cut down. This is the best one we found by far. Can you see a special little decoration in the tree?
Garrett added his own little flair this year. He threw this empty 7-up bottle in the tree and was so thrilled that it stuck. He thinks it's the funniest thing ever. So I decided it could stay this year. It's grown on us.
Elf is our favorite Christmas movie this year. Garrett loves it. We've watched it tons of times. We just bought the Polar Express and have been enjoying that for the past few days as well. It's been a nice break from Garrett's favorite movie UP.
This is my wonderful nativity set that my Mother gave me last year. It's not a great pic but this might be the only year it gets used because if you look closely you can see the injured donkey in the front and nobody will fess up.
Other than that we've enjoyed some fun Christmas parties. I made my mothers famous Sugar cookies for a cookie exchange. (They we beautiful and delicious) We've played in the snow a little bit. Grant winterized the snow machines! We managed to not take a family picture in time to get a Christmas card out. I had all my Young Women over to my house yesterday for our Christmas lesson and breakfast. We've shopped and wrapped and curled ribbon and all those fun things and we're excited and ready to head to Boise for Christmas!!!!!!
P.S. we took some quick family pictures yesterday and I'll post them in the next day or too. So stay tuned.
