Christ Centered Christmas

I love time together as a family! We decided to decorate early for Christmas this year. It was pretty exciting. We had a family home evening where we talked about how we wanted to have a "Christ Centered Christmas" this year and what we could do to accomplish that. Then we listened to Christmas music and put up or Christmas decorations. We totally started later then we had intended and....lets just say...we might have let Tanner stay up till 10pm helping us...lol. He loved decorating the tree. We finally put Tanner to bed and decided to do the rest of the lights in the morning.

When I came home from the store ( just before we started FHE) Trent surprised me with homemade chocolate, chocolate chip cookies.  Haha...well sort of...he ran out of butter while he was making them so when I came home he was in the middle of making them. He had text me when I was at the store saying I needed to get some butter. When I came home and realized why he had wanted butter, well it was just cute. He told me that he had imagined me coming home to a clean kitchen with the cookies on a plate. Guess it didn't turn out quite how he had hoped, but it was still great. We loved eating them while we decorated. The cookies were so yummy!

Tanner has still been LOVING the lessons on the white board so we have been drawing them for about a month now for our FHE lessons :) This is Mary, Joseph, and Jesus with a sheep.

Tanner helped us get out the decorations. While he was of course enjoying a tasty cookie.

He also helped open up our fun Fisher-Price Nativity. 

 

 

Trent during the mess of decorating.

Here's the tree from the beginning to end!

 Tanner putting his ordainment on the Tree. We gave this one to him for his first Christmas. He was only around 3 months old then. It is nice to see him starting to appreciate it...lol. It's Cookie monster...of course.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh, YAY for Christmas books! Time to get them out again :)

 

Then the next morning while Tanner (sort of) ran around the house like a wild man making a mess of his toys....while he was pretty much naked...only wearing his underwear...lol...Trent and I might have gotten a little carried away with decorating the window. It all started because we wanted Tanner to enjoy a snowman. Then once we realized we could make a snowman we started trying to make all sorts of fun things.

Here's some of the other fun stuff we did.