We have had the opportunity to do a lot of things already to get into the holiday spirit. The weekend after Thanksgiving we put up the little Christmas tree in Brooklyn's room and made a chain to countdown the days until Christmas. We didn't do much other decorating around the house since Stan is gone, he's the one that always put up all of the Christmas decorations. We did put up the stockings and a smaller tree (not the 15 footer) upstairs. The next week we went to the Botanical Gardens A Glow. This year was not near as cold as last year. We had a lot of fun looking at all of the lights and visiting Santa and frosting cookies with Mark and Paige's family. McKay did great. We just bundled him up and stuck him in the front pack.
The next weekend we then went over to Mark and Paige's for the annual Grinch night. We ate a bunch of green food, the kids played some super cute games and decorated ice cream cone Christmas tree and then watched the cartoon version of the Grinch.
We also had a lot of fun making muddy buddies to give to family and friends. Brooklyn loved licking the spoon and eating as many muddy buddies as she could before I stopped her. Aunt Missy and Uncle Dallin also gave us a Gingerbread House kit and Brooklyn and I had a lot of fun putting those together and decorating them. It definitely helped us get into the holiday spirit. And we of course had to make cookies for Santa. We made sugar cookies and frosting and Brooklyn was in charge of the sprinkles. She did a great job, we only ended up with 2 that were a little on the sprinkle overload side. I think Santa really enjoyed them!
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