Preparations...

Today was such a fun day of final preparations for Christmas.  The kids and I spent a relaxing morning at home decorating cookies and doing some art.  All we needed was a little snow falling outside.  White Christmas- where are you?!?!

Cookies and icing... Mickey Mouse Christmas watercolor pictures... coffee...and Christmas music on Pandora... a lovely day

Snow flake cookies!

We have our gifts all wrapped and ready to go.  The kids made our wrapping paper this year.  It had the potential of being a really messy project but it went better than I expected. They turned out pretty cute, and the kiddos had a lot of fun.

the artists

We ended the day with our "Christmas Eve Eve" service at church.  So fun having all the families together to celebrate.  I love singing to candlelight and seeing all our friends dressed up for the holiday.  We grabbed some dessert afterwards with a couple friends.  According to the hostess the previous record of number of people in this booth was 11.  We squeezed in 14, counting baby Katie who is not pictured.

Pizookies at BJ's

Speaking of Christmas preparations, we did get to drive around and look at lights a couple night ago... I think we found the biggest and best display in town...

Ooooohhhh, ahhhhh

Just kidding!!!

Here's the best one we found for reals... it's pretty nice,

One more day!!!!