it's the most wonderful time of the year!

I love Christmasssssssssss!!

ahhhhhhh!! i just love it!

I love listening to Christmas music, 

i love eating christmas cookies

and I love the calming, peaceful feeling that i get when i'm in front of the tree!

We got a small tree this year, and the boys decorated the whole thing.

i am totally not a perfectionist, and i do not care how they choose to decorate it, it just makes me happy to watch them put the ornaments on.

i always love going through the box of ornaments each year and being reminded of where they all the came from!

some were made by the boys when they were younger,

some were gifts,

some were made by me when i was in the first grade!!

hard to believe they have been around so long..i know!

oh, and this little reindeer has always been my favorite since i was little. i don't even know why.

while some parents are going to school concerts at least twice a year, i haven't been able to see my kids in a concert since aj was in kindergarten!
riley is in a music class at our homeschool co-op this year, and his teacher was adam's 2nd grade teacher!! 
isn't that just wild??
she is great, and riley had a really good time in class.
they had a christmas concert on tuesday and i was that obnoxious mother with a video camera in one hand, and a regular camera in the other.
yep.
that's me!
(sorry boys, i don't think i'll get any less embarrassing as time goes on!)
oh, and i think i did a couple whoop whoops at the end too.

he is so cute i can hardly even stand it.