its the most wonderful time of the year!!!

I absolutely love Christmas!! I love everything about it, the music, the decorations, the candy, and most of all, the celebration of Jesus' birth. I look foraward to wrapping presents (I put gift cards in boxes so I can wrap them!), houses decorated with lights and Christmas trees!! As a child, I was always so excited to help decorate the tree and I loved visiting my grandparents house because their tree was dripping with ornaments, all of which had sentimental value. Each year they would give the grandkids an ornament, my favorite is a mouse ballerina, which is hanging on my tree right now because Tyler and I finally had a day off together and we put up our tree!!!

And yes, the topper is a cabbage patch doll. She even has a star on top of her head!

Tyler decided he would have the Grinch stocking (he's not really a Grinch, just a cool stocking, the heart lights up!) and I chose the Peanuts because I have watched the Charlie Brown Christmas cartoon every year since I was born and it is just fantastic.

We found this hip little graphic tee for max at Target for $2.50 and he loves it! They don't make them in Hercules' size (he wouldn't wear one even if they did).

He was a little sleepy and not in the mood to have his picture taken!

We finished most of our shopping today, which is pretty good considering we started today, and I was even able to wrap all of the presents!

We also visited Tyler's family today. I love them and am so blessed to be a part of their family. Overall it was a pretty fantastic day!