December, for us, seemed to fly by! We left for Texas around the middle of the month, so we tried to fit as much Christmas-y stuff into the first 2 weeks at home as we could. We took Elli to see Santa, but the line was too long (and none of us are very patient!) so we just went shopping instead :) Honestly, I wasn't too disappointed and I don't think Elli was either b/c when I took her back with her Nana she was NOT a big Santa fan!
We also went to a "White Christmas" program at our church. Funny story about that...we thought we were pretty connected, so when we heard about the "White Christmas" tradition we were all for it. We got all dressed up, and were super excited to participate in such a great cause. (After an evening of carols, everyone has a quick dinner together and helps pack up sacks of groceries filled with holiday goodies for the less fortunate families in our community). So we show up, listen to the carols & thoroughly enjoyed the fellowship. Then our pastor says a prayer and ends it with asking everyone to bring their "gifts" to the front. Ummm, what gifts?! We had somehow missed a key part of the "White Christmas" tradition! Each family was supposed to bring a canned good wrapped in white tissue paper, or an offering in a white envelope, to place at the alter. Oops! We were, literally, the ONLY people sitting down without a gift. Needless to say, we were pretty embarrassed! But, it was still a great evening and felt truly blessed to be a part of a such a loving church family.
Elli liked to peek at all of the presents under the tree!
And she LOVED to help hang the ornaments!
She might have liked taking the ornaments off the tree even more :)
She loved the trains at the mall...too bad she was too little to ride :(
And she loved giving my Santa towels kisses...so cute!
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