It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!!

All decked out for ugly Christmas shirt/sweater day!

We LOVE when the elf on the shelf visits.  Magic is a naughty one!

He was a very destructive elf too!

Sweet as can be to visit our friend Santa!

Candle lighting Christmas service at church.

Fire!

We always visit the Festival of Lights with Gracie!

The lights are SO beautiful!

WE all made it to the nice list!

This is always Danni's favorite part of visiting the Mission Inn... dessert!!

It was rainy, so it wasn't crowded at all!!  The rain didn't stop us!

Christmas cookie making!

Everyone gets diabetes for Christmas!!

Ready for our Christmas Eve Pajama Run!

But first, Mommy wanted a picture of us in our new jammies... before they got goobered up!

Smile, Danni!

Ready for our sugar rush!

No naughtiness here!

Danni loved her red velvet pancake puppy sundae!

Papa joined us too!

And Auntie Suz!!

Merry Christmas Eve!!!

We LOVE all of the activities that precede Christmas!  We have so many awesome traditions that help us get into the spirit of the holidays!!  One of our favorite parts of the season is the return of our Elf on the Shelf, Magic.  Magic is a naughty elf and brings a lot of messiness and destruction to our house during the month of December.  Danni wrote to Santa and asked for a friend for Magic... and, a girl elf (whom Danni named Snowflake) was delivered!!! Mommy and Daddy hope that this doesn't mean there is going to be twice as much trouble!!

We also make an annual trip to the Mission Inn to check out their Festival of Lights.  It was drizzling this year so it wasn't totally crowded.  It was nice to take our time to check out all of the dazzling lights.  We also enjoyed a yummy dinner at Heroes and dessert at Casey's Cupcakes.  I love this tradition!!

On Christmas Eve, we headed out on our traditional Pajama Run.  We wore our jammies and enjoyed dessert at Denny's!  Gracie's family joined us and we were surprised when Papa and Auntie Suz came too!  It was their first time on the Pajama Run -- hopefully they will be back!!  Our month of fun Christmas activities flew by...  but they sure got us ready for the Christmas holiday!!