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Christmas!! I think Christmas is by far my favorite holiday. I love decorating for the holiday and usually don’t wait until after Thanksgiving. We decorate the inside and outside each year. Now that we have Mason, it makes decorating take on a whole new meaning. We have even started new fun traditions. We decorated some gingerbread houses one night. It was a lot of fun. Mason mostly enjoyed eating the candy and icing and definitely got hyped up on sugar and didn’t want to go to bed. Next year I will remember to do it during the daytime, not as an after dinner activity. I have also decided this year, that we are going to have a holiday movie night. I can’t decide when we will get a chance to do it. I would say on Christmas Eve, but that’s when we typically go to my parents house for Christmas. We come home that night in order for Santa to find us at home, but that leaves a late night at Nana and Papaws. Maybe we could do it there. We have started one other tradition. New Christmas themed books. This year we got Mason the Polar Express. He loves us to read it to him. He also loves the Disney Christmas Carol. We read almost all of both each night lately. Yummy Icing. He is definitely my child…I was eating as much as he was. I think that this was easier when I was a kid. The icing dries quickly for anyone planning this in the future. Ice then place the candy. Sprinkling doesn’t cause it to stick. Another fun tradition that we will carry over to Mason, is going to look at the Christmas lights. I love Christmas lights. I could drive around nightly and look at the lights. Mason’s love for the lights is super hard to express into words. It is wonderful to see that much excitement going on in his eyes. I want to take him to see Santa soon. I cannot wait to see his reaction this year. It should be good! I am betting tears and fear. But who knows. I plan to tell him he is like a Papaw. Mason spotted an airplane flying over. He loves airplanes as much as the lights. Off roading with Papaw! Standing in the middle of a giant Christmas Tree! My favorite Christmas tradition that Michael and I started years ago. We always collect ornaments when we travel different places. It is fun to pick one out when we are on vacation and then each year it is great putting those on the tree and remembering our past trips. We added three new ornaments this year. I almost forgot about our ski trip in January…seems so long ago. But here are a few of the new ones and some of my favorites.