Christmas Cheer

I love Christmas time! I love the decorations, the "holiday cheer" and just the emphasis on family and being together and loving each other. We started our Christmas season the weekend after Thanksgiving.

Although Josh was feeling puny, he put up our 2 huge trees and decorated the house and the outside. It is a Danford family tradition that the baby of the family gets to put the angel on top of the tree. Here is baby Alexa doing the honors this year.

Of course big sister didn't want to miss out on it either :)

It was so funny to me, I remember when we were decorating for Christmas last year I was about 12 weeks pregnant and was having horrible morning sickness. Josh, my mom and Avery did most of the decorating. This year we had a 5 month old watching the festivities. What a difference a year makes!

Speaking of our sweet 5 month old! Josh's cousin does a picture magnet for his grandparents every year, and needed a picture of Alexa. I threw a bow on her and snapped some pictures after work one night. Jonnilin edited them for me and here is our gorgeous chunky girl!

 Thursday December 12th was the only day we could pencil in a visit to Santa with our busy schedules :) We were there are 10am and the girls were the first ones of the day to sit on his lap.

 They did great! Avery was so excited to see him and wasn't shy at all. Alexa did awesome too! She got a handful of beard when we sat her on his lap, but after that she sat sweetly and we even were able to get a few smiles.

 Here is Avery telling him that she is almost 4.

 

And having a heart to heart about her Christmas list.

I don't even want to talk about how much she has grown since last year! She is wearing the same dress and you can see how much taller she is!

Here is Avery's gingerbread house. She decorated it so well! I did the white icing work and the fondant door, everything else was her creation.

This was before church this past week. She looked so cute in her Christmas ensemble.

My sweet girls.

Avery's Christmas program at school was on Friday. Josh was able to leave work to attend and my mom came too. It was so cute the Pre-K kid reenacted the nativity. The younger classes sang all the Christmas songs. Here she is after the program looking like a 12 year old! :(