'Tis the Season!

Well here we are knocking down the door to Christmas, another year flew by!

After starting December off with our visit to Disney Playhouse live, we contiuned the funby going to get the boys xmas tree. This is the one we put in the basement that the boys can decorate and we put the trains up underneath. They had fun decorating and helping daddy with the trains, as usual we started the year off with a few derailments!

We continued the holiday fun buy having a Christmas cookie baking party, well slice and bake and decorate. The kids and moms had fun. The decorating was a big hit, though I am not sure eating the ones Maks decorated was the safest thing to do--but he loved it! We got Alek to sit down for about 5 minutes to decorate.

It was a fun day as evident by the mess in my house the next morning, but messy house equals happy kids!

Monday we were off to the Picture People for our holiday portraits. I made our appt for after nap time and the boys seemed ready to go and in good moods. So we thought, as the camera came out Maks got bitter, he wanted no parts of it and despite Kevin and I's best efforts we couldn't get him happy. So the woman at Picture people was great, she just took her time and got him semi happy with building blocks. We did the best we could!

Kevin and I were looking back at the difference between last years pics and this years, it really is amazing the changes in the boys, from baby faces to little men and alot more hair for Maks (no I am not going for the Kate Hudson look for her son), I do plan to get his hair cut soon, I am just afraid of losing the curls! It is hard to believe that this time last year, Maks was in the hospital fighting off pneumonia and RSV, he is such an amazing little guy, we are so lucky to have both of them in our lives. They make every day and every holiday so special!

After getting our pictures done, we headed to visit Santa. Alek was so excited and went right up to him, as before Maks wanted no parts of the jolly old guy, so we got the picture as quick as we could and rescued Maks and Santa. Alek hung out and told the big guy what he wanted for Christmas, which changes daily now.

So two weeks left to Christmas and the excitement is building. Alek is definitely in the xmas spirit and loves singing carols and practicing for his school production. Maks is still at that oblivious age, which is wonderful. It is definitely going to be a fun Christmas!

Click on the picture below to see some more pics of the xmas tree hunt!

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