It's Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas

It's starting to feel Christmas-y around the Kandell home. Our outside lights actually went up the weekend before Thanksgiving (not holidically correct, I know.) And the weekend after Christmas I got the tree up and decorated, the wreaths and stockings hung. And I have to say, there is something mood-changing about having your home festive.

{Our green/gold Butterfly tree}

I decided earlier in the month, that since we actually were not hosting any parties or get together at our home this Christmas, I was not going to OVER-do the decor. But, Grandma Sue did pick up this darling pink tree for Ady's room, that we decorated with some super cute girly girl ornaments I had saved from a couples years back. Ady is in heaven.

We had a tradition growing up in my family, that every year we all got a new ornament for that year.  We loved when we would decorate out tree as a family and my mom would pull out "our box" with all the ornaments we had collected over the years, (I always had the most being the oldest, which I loved) and remember why we had selected the ornament that we had. Each had it's own story or memory. So, I am trying to pass the tradition on to my kids. It's already fun to see Ady love her ornaments from the 3 Christmas's she has had. Poor Max felt a little jipped with just his one from last year. But, their new ones will arrive soon, and I am sure they will love them!

{This is the one I gave Eric in 2005, the year he became a dad}

{Maxwell's from last year- his first Christmas}

{Adyson's from 2006, the first year the princess obsession began...it's still going strong}

We have so many fun ones to remember our holidays together. I made me smile to see the ornament from last year I gave to Eric, it was of 4 sunchairs with each of our names on it, sitting on the beach, and I put "Christmas in Cabo 2007", and it makes me remember how we never made to to Cabo last year from Christmas because I got an infected abcess in my tooth and I spent Christmas break getting a root canal, and a crown.

Or the ornament from our first year of being married, a framed pic of us at my moms, and I look horrible, (I was in my first trimester prego with Ady, I threw up ALL day)

In a couple years I figure we will have to get an entire seperate tree just for our family ornaments.

I think it is so fun, and I am such a sucker for tradtions.

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Lights at Temple Square

{Temple Square Christmas Lights}

I guess I am still playing catch up from last weekends activities with Eric's extended family. We went into temple square the night they turned the lights on and watch the Nativity. The kids loved it.

{The cousins}

{Avery and Adyson}

{Bundled up Max}

{Grandpa Jim, wearing sandals with Ady and Easton}

{Trying to get a family pic}

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Aquatic Center

The day after Thanksgiving, we went to the Aquatic Center we are members of, that is just down the street from our house with all the Lovell, Kesler, Marsh and Kandell cousins and family. It was a great time and the kids had so much fun together. Especially the 2 biggest kids,  cousins Eric (32) and Weston (34). The kids love swimming with their dads. I take my kids swimming there usually once a week, but they have so much more fun with Eric somehow. We had such a great Thanksgiving break with Eric's family.

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