Getting Ready for Christmas

It was really fun this year to have Gavin help us get ready for Christmas.

The first step was decorating the house. We bought our tree a few days after Thanksgiving and Gavin was so excited to have a tree inside our house! We told him that he was not allowed to touch the tree or the ornaments and he actually did a really good job of listening! Every morning he would run out and ask us to turn the lights on, but he would never touch the tree!

Helping hang the ornaments.

Putting the star on top of the tree.

He needed a little help from Dad.

Hanging our stockings.

Our first year having a fireplace to actually hang our stockings from!!

Of course a big part of getting ready for Christmas was visiting Santa. Gavin learned to recognize who Santa was and would get excited every time he saw him, a picture of him or anything that looked like him. Luckily Gavin had a few different opportunities to go see Santa. He never understood that you had to tell Santa what you wanted. He would just climb up on his lap, look at the camera and say "cheese" and then want to get down. We would usually tell him something that he should say that he wanted.

Santa at our Ward party: Asked for a baseball.

Santa at Americana: Asked for a baseball glove, a truck, and a train.

Santa at Gateway: Asked for a dump truck.

Santa at the Grandparents: Asked for a baseball glove (left handed).

Giving Santa a hug!

Santa, his elf, and all the cousins.

We were definitely ready for Christmas!!