Crazy about Christmas!

It is taking everything in me to keep from putting up the Christmas decor early! I love Christmas! Don't get me wrong I love Thanksgiving too but Christmas has always been my favorite time of year. I think it is because my mom always made Christmas such a special and memorable time for us growing up. She started lots of special traditions and I have been so anxious to continue these with my children one day as well as start some of our own. So you can only imagine how excited I am about Ava Kate's first Christmas. I bought an advent calendar this year and I have decided instead of filling it with gifts it will be filled with daily family activities and will incorporate our traditions. I am going to do my best to document our daily advent activities with a photo and blog post. For now to settle my itch to start decorating I went ahead and hung the advent calendar. Only 9 more days until the activities begin!