Getting ready for Christmas

 I am SO excited for Christmas this year!  Korbyn can understand so much now and it's been really exciting for her.  She's been enjoying seeing all the Christmas lights and decorations, although we never got a chance to get lights up this year :(  Unfortunately she's absolutely terrified of Santa this year.  I can't even go near him with her, she freezes and just stares at him and says "I don't want it."  Her and daddy were setting up the manger scene while I was decorating the tree.  I've been trying to explain to her that we celebrate Christmas because we're celebrating baby Jesus' birthday.

 A tradition that my mom and dad had when I was growing up is that we went to the tree farm every year and chose our tree and cut it ourselves.  Sometimes it would take us so long to pick out a tree because we were all so opinionated.  Colton and I have started this tradition in our house as well.  This is Korbyn's third Christmas and we've gone to the tree farm every year.  This year of course she had to help.

 Her job was to carry around the piece of cardboard they give you to kneel on when you're cutting down your tree.  She would get a little distracted at times.

 We put our tree in our living room where our ceilings are a little bit taller, so we were looking for a six foot tree.  Korbyn refused to leave this tree!  She kept saying "I want this one!"  It was definitely a beautiful tree, but she must have been mistaken and thought we were needing a tree for our mansion.

 We finally decided on a Carolina fir, which we never got before but is really pretty and smells SO good.

 Here's my two photogenic cuties.

 We could have gotten a taller one, but our living room is so tiny that it would have overtaken the entire room.  Another tradition that my mom always had was to only put handmade ornaments, or ornaments that were given to us on our tree.  Yet another tradition I want to keep.  Growing up we never had store bought ornaments and it made the tree look so hodge podge and beautiful, I want our tree to be the same way.  We have a few store bought balls for filler but hopefully one day we'll have a big tree full of handmade ornaments!

I was really proud of myself this year for getting all of Korbyn's gifts last year half price and stashing them away in our closet.  Definitely helped out with the shopping :)