Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas

So we have started our Christmas celebration with decor and parties.  Last saturday we had our annual ward Christmas party.  Always a fun night.  The program was the primary kids singing.  Santa came for a visit and the kids love sitting on his lap.  Kya makes me laugh...she whispered in my ear, "mom, I don't know what I want for Christmas"...she was very concerned that she shouldn't sit on Santa's lap because she has nothing to tell him or ask from him.  What a funny girl.

We made ornaments and decorated our trees.  This year I made a very simple advent calendar and each day the kids pick out an activity to do that day.  One day we spent making ornaments, then we decorated one tree, we've cut out snowflakes from paper, wrote letters to Santa, decorated our "family" tree, opened a present {book} and started reading children's classics...among other things.

Here are a few pics of holidays so far...