Christmas Festivities

So we are in full swing Christmas time over here. We have done projects and made Christmas cookies and sugar cookie castles and ornaments....We love Christmas. 

Hollis is making her Christmas wreath. She LOVED doing this project. It was really fun to watch her.

 Marin practicing cutting with big girl scissors. 

 Goofball. 

 Their finished wreaths on our play room door. 

 Hollis is a bit obsessed with the Christmas ornaments. I am pretty sure it will be like an Easter Egg Hunt when it is time to put the tree up because ornaments are hidden everywhere around the house. 

This beautiful girl is going to be three soon. I can't believe. This picture will be for  her birthday invitation. Her first friend party. Side note: If you only knew the back and forth torture I went through trying to decide what to do for her birthday...friend party, no friend party, family party then friend party, just family party, just extended family party, just friend party in January. Oh. My. Word. It stinks her birthday is two days after Christmas which puts a whole different kink in the plan. But again Oh. My. Word. My brain was spinning. Still kinda is.
Amanda, you are the only one that can truly understand how crazy this party planning thing is. :o) 

Working on their Christmas tree paper plate garland. 

The tree garland is our stairwell decorations. :o)

Our Christmas train conductor. This girl LOVES the Christmas train.
And she has learned how to do it all by herself. 

Baby Jesus and the whole nativity crew went for a ride. 

Waiting for her turn....

We had some of our neighbor friends over to decorate Christmas cookies.  :o)

Hollis liked the icing. 

"Santa" sent an early present. A Princess Sofia sugar cookie castle. I knew the girls wouldn't like gingerbread so the sugar cookie was a good pick, Santa. And the fact that it was a castle and Princess Sofia...big hit. Although, Hollis ate most of her decorations. 

Checking out their hard work. 

My FAVORITE Christmas project so far. Their little handprint trees. They turned out so cute.   I laminated them and put the date on them so I can pull them out year after year. 

Christmas cookies in the oven. Gotta keep an eye on them, ya know.