Christmas is here!

For me, putting the Christmas tree up the weekend after Thanksgiving always marks the official start of the Christmas season. The kids start to get excited and they love looking through all the ornaments and remembering when they made them or which Christmas they received them. It's especially nice now that we have a pre-lit tree that Ben puts up in about 10 minutes and then we just let the kids go to town putting all the ornaments on. It's not much to look at, but all those cute kid-made ornaments add up to lots of fun Christmas memories!

Christmas came early!!!

My super awesome sister and her husband had us for Christmas this year and brought our Christmas present when they came to AZ for Thanksgiving. They bought and refinished this table for our entryway and I absolutely love it! Thanks Jenny and Matthew! Love you guys!!!

Merry Main Street in Safford

Family pictures

Yesterday we had our family picture taken! We actually hired a real photographer and dressed all matchy, matchy and I am so excited to see how they turned out! It had been over two years since we had a family picture so it was long overdue and even though I always get a little stressed out at family picture time, it was kind of fun to dress everybody and get to do all sorts of poses and stuff. There are a few of the pictures on the photographer's blog if you want to check it out. Go to: http://eloisesmithphotography.blogspot.com/