The boys and I started getting in the Christmas spirit by going to Fantasy of Trees on Saturday, November 24. Mimi joined us which definitely made it easier for me to keep up with all 3 of them since Matt was at the UT football game. 
On Sunday, Dec. 25, Elgie the Elf showed up and fixed us a North Pole breakfast.
The babies really liked their "snowball" powdered doughnuts.
Later in the day, Griffin decorated the Candy Cottage that we got at Fantasy of Trees. This is such a great product--we get all of the fun of decorating a gingerbread house without baking gingerbread or buying a new kit every year. Just snap the plastic pieces together, decorate, and then wash it all off at the end of the season and it's ready to use again for the next holiday!
On Friday, Dec. 7, we had a Grinch party. After dinner, Griffin put on his Grinch pajamas, we all enjoyed green treats (Hudson had to get a little help with his green sherbet), and we snuggled together on the floor while we watched the original Grinch cartoon.
On Sunday, Dec. 9, we attempted to get the perfect picture for our Christmas card.
We took a LOT of pictures.
For a baby that smiles all the time, Hudson just would not smile for the camera!
Of course, that's Hudson--he already loves to break the rules and go against the flow.
It wasn't exactly the picture I'd set out trying to get, but this ended up being the winner.
And years down the road, I'm sure I'll look back at it and love that it captured Hudson's personality.
On Dec. 13, we took all of the boys to Ms. Sherri's house for her annual Cookies with Santa party. Griffin had colored a stocking picture at school and drew a flying Transformer coming out of the stocking. He took the picture to the party to show Santa and very thoroughly described just what the Transformer should be able to do.
Baylor went right over to Santa and gladly got on his lap. Hudson, on the other hand, did not want to go anywhere near Santa.
This was Griffin's 4th year performing in the West Hills Baptist Christmas pageant. Every year, the two-, three-, and four-year old classes sing songs and the Kindergarteners perform the nativity.
Griffin was excited to be one of the "big kids" this year and to get to have a role in the nativity. He played the Innkeeper.
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