and these are the things around our house:
advent calendar printed and hung over our dining table from here.
totally copied melissa’s christmas book tradition!
the kids made a gingerbread house with grampies… i am so impressed with this trader joes g house! so much detail and soooo cheap! heehee and so adorable. sigh. i love it.
elsie went to her BFF’s birthday party and saw santa! 🙂
she knew it was daddy and kept saying, daddy, yucky. 🙂 she has since recovered. 🙂 thank goodness. she also has the ‘ho ho ho’ down. so cute!
and this isn’t christmas but who could resist birthday cupcakes?
we still haven’t gotten our tree, hopefully sometime this week. christmas cards are halfway addressed…shopping isn’t nearly done..but hey, i am just proud of myself for following through on the book reading and advent calendar. 🙂
watersix 
Those cupcakes look divine!!! Yum Yummy!! –oh how I miss Trader Joes, none here in TX 😦
I just bought that same advent kit, –what did you print them out on?? need to get that done…
Thanks for the inspiring post!
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oooh i need one of those trader joe’s houses… that’s adorable!!!
good to talk to you today 🙂
you’re so cute! give me a call if you need anything else.
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you are having so much fun getting into the holiday spirit.
i love your advent calendar and that is too funny that elsie knew it was daddy! 😉
that gingerbread house is awesome…love it!
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oh, i forgot to say that i hope the kids are enjoying the books!
🙂
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we have an ant problem, so no gingerbread casa for us. boo.
love your advent calendar. ours is from tjoes, so kinda the same? lol
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look at all those FUN activities! 🙂
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yea, Elsie doesn’t look too convinced of the Daddy-as-Santa get-up.
and I don’t think you necessarily need an occasion to celebrate in order to have cupcakes. in fact, I think I might just go get one today just because…
happy week to you Jamie!!
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Hi Jaime! You, Chris, and the kids are absolutely adorable. I am so amazed by your blog and hope one day, I will be able to document joys in life like you do with your family. Even Johnny says “You should be like Jaime when we have kids!” Haha. Anyway, I’m a subscriber now b/c you’ve got me hooked!
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i love the gingerbread house! I think that I’m gonna have to copy you on that one! The advent calendar is too cute…but we have a fan above our dining room table…hmmm
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I started buying a bunch of Christmas books last year and now this year in hopes that I will have 25 books to wrap up next year. That is a very cool tradition. 🙂
Your advent calendar is so cute! I put mine up but nothing inside it… not good.
I love the expression on Elsie’s face in the Santa photo. I think Cayla will freak (in a bad way) this year when we take her to see Santa at the mall. Is it bad that I’ll still take pictures anyway?
Hope you are doing well!
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That advent calendar is beautiful, Jamie! Love all of your photographs! Happy Holidays to you and your family!
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would love to know where you got that Merry christmas wrapping paper you used on the Christmas books
thanks
peace
Kim
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lol
my hubby dressed as santa
when our girl one was small
& our girl one knew
it was daddy right away, too!!
funny how they know that!!
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thank you for the inspiration!
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