It's Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas

As tradition holds, we began our Christmas celebration as soon as Thanksgiving was over.  One of the first orders of business was to meet Santa and get a picture taken.  Everyone had a great time with this, that is, until it was time to actually meet Santa and get the picture taken, when Eliza decided she wanted no part of it.  Notice Ben is holding her to the side, just so that she would be in the picture.  After a few minutes, and watching Cat and Jack have a conversation with the Big Guy, she decided she could talk to him as well.  She was still wary, but I'm glad she felt comfortable speaking with him for a minute.

It was really exciting to get all of our decorations out.  I always love the way a home looks with Christmas decorations, and I think it was an extra-powerful transformation for our home, considering we still hadn't done any decorating at this point.  Christmas decorations made the house look lived-in, ha ha.  The kids always have their favorite things - the Little People Nativity Set, my mechanical frogs that croak Christmas songs, our baby sock activity advent calendar, and all of the Christmas books and movies we keep packed up with the decorations.

Then, the first Sunday in December, Cat and I participated in the Stake Christmas Choir Festival.  She and I had been singing with our Ward Choir, and the choir director asked Cat to sing a small solo at the end of our rendition of "Angels We Have Heard on High." She really did sound like an angel and got tons of compliments.