It's Christmas Time!

Oh how I LOVE Christmas!!  I'm loving it even more now that I have kids.  We are starting some new traditions and one of them is The Elf on the Shelf.  "Benny" is our Elf and he reports back to Santa every night to let him know how the kids were that day.  I'm sure Santa finds that to be very helpful;)
Katie named him and Kyle approved.  We started it December 1 and Christmas Eve will be his last night here until next year. 
The kids love looking for him each morning and Kyle points to him multiple times throughout the day.

Katie and her Daddy on their way to see the play Sleeping Beauty

Kisses for Daddy

My silly Kyle

We are also doing the advent calendars.  I'm hoping to get a homemade one done for next year to give it that more homey feeling.  I still have my stocking from my childhood that my Aunt Marie made for me and it has my name on it and everything.  I actually bought Katie 2 stockings because I felt the first one wasn't homemade looking enough.  I'm hoping to find a place to get everyone else's names on them.  We also did up Santa videos for the kids.  Here is the link for both of theirs.

 http://www.portablenorthpole.tv/watch/gSffw5ErrouKY1KfmfT3lqA
 http://www.portablenorthpole.tv/watch/gFdfQP0UVSG_jybw_cEdlkw

I think they are pretty cute.  Katie was more impressed than Kyle but I'm not surprised.

Since winter is here, I decided it's time to change my hair color again.  Violet it is!  Funny story...I had been thinking of what color to do for winter and a couple days before I went, I was talking to Katie and she said she wished she had pink and purple hair!  So when I came home, Katie was very happy to see the purple hair but I have to say...she did seem a little jealous;p  HAHAHA  Just wait until she sees my hair in the spring!!