Saturday, December 6, 2008

Recent Christmas fun


This past week we've had fun preparing for Christmas!! We got our tree from the farmer's market again this year and finished decorating the house. Stephen said it was already the best Christmas yet because Abby got so excited about the ornaments and loved dancing to our favorite Christmas tunes. We've also enjoyed Greenville's downtown holiday events the past 2 nights. The free carousel was a big hit and the annual Christmas parade was chilly!! I was glad to get to participate in these fun holiday events and see Abby's face light up at each event. One lady turned around at the parade and said she'd never seen so much wonder in a child's eyes. Abby was truly excited and it reminded me to not take the simple things in life for granted. I want to live really excitedly like that. Right now I'm living excitedly and patiently in anticipation of this baby boy being born any day!!! But for now, I'm so excited about celebrating Jesus with my dear family. What a glorious season!

Our "gingerbread" graham cracker house attempt...it's not winning any awards and she mainly just wanted to eat icing on graham crackers (which is really good!)

The tree...can't you tell where Abby was hanging ornaments?

Downtown FREE carousel ride

Aren't these some cute parade watching girls!

Waiting on the parade to start with the Roemmich and Hatten families

3 comments:

Betsy said...

that was some fast blogging. we haven't even been home for 2 hours yet!

The Anderson Family said...

Glad y'all had fun! Wish we could have been two places at once! We'll do the parade next year for sure. Let us know if you need anything when baby boy is on his way!

Brandi said...

That is fast blogging!! We had a similar week too. The parade was PACKED!!! Anna had to see the parade from shoulders. LOL!! i cheated on the gingerbread house and bought a premade pack at sam's. I'm impressed you started from scratch! I wasn't that brave this year.