IT'S ALL ABOUT CHRISTMAS FROM HERE ON OUT!!!!

We LOVE Christmas at the Thompson house! Yep, we are the annoying people who put their trees up before Thanksgiving (in our case a whole week before!!!) But let's face it...decorating for Christmas is hard work, just digging all the decorations out is hard enough. But we like to enjoy our decorated house as long as possible, so we start a little early. Although, we are not so annoying that we turn the outside lights on weeks before Thanksgiving---we waited until after Thanksgiving for that one! Didn't want you to think we were "one of those" people!

Soooo, getting into the Christmas spirit wasn't quite as welcoming, at first, to our little guy. Sure he loves Santa (in books, on paper, on ornaments, or from afar--let me just add that going to see Santa this year for pictures will go down in history as the biggest melt down we have seen in Cale's short life thus far! Maybe, hopefully, next year!) Sure he loves Rudolph, The Grinch, the Christmas trees....but getting him to wear Santa's hat was like "Ba Humbug!!!"

Ok, so he's starting to warm up a bit here....He's got his Santa mug in hand and you can see a slight smirk starting to form under all that fluff....it probably helps that I'm sitting on the floor next to him yelling "HO HO HO!!!! and rubbing my belly" (Gosh, the things moms will do to get a laugh out of thier little stinkers!)

Now we're in the spirit!!!!!!!!!!!!

And haven't looked back!!!! I know Cale thinks "Mom is such a dork!"

Cute picuture...but the only reason he's being so well behaved and waving is cuz I actually let him stand on the chair so I could take the dang thing.....Daddy would not be impressed!





And because we're soooooooooooo excited about our new fireplace, I thought I'd throw in a few pictures of it to show you all....we've been wanting a fireplace for years, and we finally got one! Yeah!!! So besides looking AWESOME, it's keeping us warm downstairs. No more frozen noses Grandma B!

Cale loves our upstairs Christmas tree....here he is having his nightly "pow-wow" his his two little buddies...Rudolph and my old Christmas Teddy Bear. Every night after his bath he goes to grab his nuk and his "b" (blanket) and sits down in front of the tree, just looking at it and his new little friends. I'm gonna feel horrible putting those guys away!

Good night! Sleep tight!!