Awesome holiday fun-ness

We have a lot of fun celebrating the holidays. I never did post our wonderful Thanksgiving day pictures so we will start there. My cousin Cameron and his family joined us for Thanksgiving.

Watching the parade

LETS EAT!

Playing Mario Kart

Playing Disney Dance Party

Once Thanksgiving was over we headed right into CHRISTMAS!!! Our Black Friday tradition is setting up our Christmas Tree and decorating the house for Christmas

Joseph loves these little silver balls 

Putting our angel on top

Our family has a tradition of getting a new ornament representing that last year. Joseph's ornament this year was Mario :) Michael got one that says 2nd Christmas and has a picture of him and his brother in it.

ALL DONE!!!

Outside is all decorated :) This is our first year actually having an outside to decorate. In the past we have only had a balcony or a window.

The first weekend in December I performed in a musical nativity called Before Tonight. We got to perform at the DC Temple.

The Shepherds sang one of my favorite songs!

Mary :)

The whole group

My wonderful hubby and I in front of the temple

The rest of December has been filled with some holiday parties, and some Scentsy events for me. We got some very coveted tickets to the Santa Train.

Waiting for the train to arrive

The whole family!

SANTA!

Mrs Claus

Michael's first candy cane

Joseph is coloring the train book that Santa gave him and Michael is looking out the window

Joseph has his wonderful Preschool program. They sang a few songs and recited the Night Before Christmas. Joseph had 3 speaking parts and he did them completely memorized! He is getting so big we can hardly believe it. We also did some holiday baking including Chocolate Mint Fudge and Peppermint Oreo Brownies. They were both really yummy! On Christmas Eve we will dip Oreos, make Homemade Thin Mints, and make cookies for Santa.

This last weekend my parents came for a quick visit. The visit was short but a lot of fun. First we went to our Ward Holiday Brunch and then off to DC.

The Primary singing "Once there was a Snowman"

Grandpa with his boys

The National Museum of Natural History

After the museum we went to the Lights at Bull Run. In future years we will probably not go the weekend before Christmas... 45 min in line 30 minutes to drive through the lights. They were really cool to see, but I think next time we will go on a Thursday in the beginning of December lol. At the end of the lights the have a Winter Wonderland.

Joseph rode his first roller coaster! Your traditional Christmas Dragon roller coaster

He also got your traditional Christmas light saber!

We also had a little early Christmas and opened Grandma and Grandpa's gifts.

Joseph got a Hulk T-shirt and a Hulk Sweatshirt. This is his "Hulk Face"

Playing Mario Kart with Grandpa

Well that about sums up our Holiday fun activities. Matt works for the next 2 days and then is off for the holidays. Joseph is so excited for Christmas he can hardly contain himself. I will do my best to post some Christmas pictures!