Tis the Season! Christmas is upon us!

Happy Day after Thanksgiving! I hope y'all had a wonderful day with friends and family and were able to eat lots of yummy food! 

I guess now it's officially the Christmas season, although I've seen Christmas stuff in our local Dollar General since August.... NOT KIDDING. 

Guess it's time to get all the Christmas decorations up and start all of our Christmas traditions.

We have a lot of things we do every year like advent calendars, decorating the Christmas tree, putting up the garland and our stockings.

We watch Christmas movies and cartoons and sing Christmas carols.

We go the live Nativity in the next town over and make Christmas cookies and other treats.

I have a Christmas village that I put up every year. 

And we always put up tons of Christmas lights.

We see Santa Claus in the courthouse when he arrives later today and then again when he revisits our little town after our Christmas parade. 

We love to drive around and look at all the Christmas lights in our town and the areas around our town.

I participate in several Christmas concerts (both singing and playing various instruments). 

The kids and I make gingerbread houses (and every year I wonder WHY we do that because I HATE THEM).

There's Christmas parties at school and at Church and our preschool Bible group. 

We always go see the San Antonio Riverwalk all lit up for Christmas as well. 

The kids and I make gifts for all of our family.

I'll admit to going overboard on the Christmas gifts for my kids, but I just love watching them open their presents. 

Honey Graham and I watch Die Hard on Christmas Eve after the kids go to bed.

We go to our Candlelight Christmas Eve service after spending the day with Honey Graham's family.

The Kids write a letter to Santa and leave out treats for him. 

Christmas Day, we wake up super early and find out what Santa left for us!

Then, we open our stockings and presents from Santa and after that, we drive over to my parents' house for a breakfast of scones and peppermint coffee (peppermint hot chocolate for the kids and my sister). We're going to have to figure out how exactly we're doing that this year since my parents now live an hour away instead of 20 minutes. Maybe we'll stay the night or something. We've got time to figure it out. 

The day after Christmas we spend with the other side of Honey Graham's family... with his mom and sister and our nephew, and this year, we'll have Gramal!! It's a lot of fun and very relaxing and last year, it was like, the PERFECT day. 

It's a busy time of year, but I'll tell you, it's my favorite time of the year. The weather is chilly and there's so much going on and so much fun to be had! 

What do y'all do during Christmas time?