Santa's workshop!

When my oldest sister and I were younger, we always dedicated a week right around this time of year to making all things Christmas. We pretended we were elves, decorated, crafted, listen and sang to christmas music....it was all very organized its one of my favorite christmas time memories/traditions.
I carried on the tradition with the boys starting this week. We made gingerbread houses, cut and pasted lots of construction paper loops, dressed up in elf & santa gear, and rocked out to Christmas music. We still have plenty days left to go, but I thought I'd post up a couple from these past few days!










Hmmm...the pictures I took of today arent loading for some reason....I'll have to try to fix it and add more later....

Santa baby!

I bought this little hat last year at the Christmas Tree shop (of course) it was marked down to like 10 cents, so I grabbed it..but when I got home I realized it was for your pet!!! I was only a month or so pregnant with Ollie so I thought a tiny baby would fit it--why not!? :) I had to stretch it a bit, but I got it on his head! and the little strap that goes around his chin kind of looks like a santa beard!! I hope to get some pics of Santa Brig and Ollie tonight in front of the tree--Its really hard to get Briggy to sit still for a pic....but I'll try my best!!

Its beginning to look alot like Christmas!!

Right after Thanksgiving dinner was done, I started searching and pulling out all of our Christmas boxes. I am convinced we are missing a box, because there are quite a few decorations I remember buying last year at the Christmas Tree shop Clearance sale that are no where to be found--and I know Grandma T gave us a gingerbread house kit and I can't find that either...I am going crazy looking for it, but I've checked every nook of the garage and all the storage closests and NOTHING! The decorations are a little sparse in the front room area (and non-existent) on our front porch area except for a wreath--I hope I can snag some good clearance deals after the holidays this year...I REALLY WISH we had a Christmas Tree Shop down here in TX....


Our Christmas Tree! Nestled in the corner of our family room--Hopefully Briggy can keep his paws off the decorations, he's been pretty good so far...I have to take some picture of him and Oliver in front of the tree later tonight....

Our entryway table.

A little arrangement on our diningroom table. I made the two little cardinals smooching!

We made these plates the other night during an Enrichment activity! I love vinyl lettering!!! I thought this font was fun and so adorable. It'll be a tradition for us to put cookies on the cute plate every year!!

Going up the stairs to the "kid zone" I put up some kid-friendly decorations. Auntie Amy, Uncle Jeff and Addy gave us the nativity scene last year, fun fun fun!

Playtime!

Here are some fun photos of the boys playing. Briggy loves playing with the boxes that I have been getting lately--i've been doing A LOT of online shopping! Last night I placed my lassssssssssssttttt order...I'm DONE!
Oliver is growing like a weed! He really loves the Jumperoo--it's definitely his favorite thing to do! He is really good with tummy time, but hasn't attempted to roll over yet....I think he's too heavy! He loves sitting up, and likes to have his feet planted on the ground and pretend to walk--I wonder if he'll be one of those babies who never crawls and just starts walking!!! Briggy was a crawling machine, so we'll have to wait and see over the next month or two....

Yo Gabba Gabba: Party in Dallas!!!!!!!!!!

Today was THE BIG DAY! We've been waiting all month to suprize Briggy with a live Yo Gabba Gabba concert! It was about an hour away at the Dr Pepper Arena in Frisco. Brigs has been sleeping in a lot later than normal, which really threw off his routine, which led to a slightly sleepy/grumpy Brigs when we first got there-- it only took his Gabba friends a minute to convince to have fun! The show was at 3, we left a little after 1...so he didnt get a nap today ;/ needless to say I was worried about him, but he held up alright...it was just hard to keep him still! They released balloons out to the crowd and he went wild playing with them, it was hard to keep him contained to a seat! All I have to say is these shows are a nice TREAT but seriously, way too expensive. Maybe once a year we'll do something like this for them, but it really added up....and if we bought all the fun sovenior stuff, it would have been really crazy!

Here are some pics (Oliver slept almost the entire time! But we were able to get a pic of him before he fell asleep in Daddy's arms!)












About 2 minutes after getting into the car, Briggy was all Gabba'd out!

I am so excited to plan Briggy's 2nd Yo Gabba Gabba birthday party!

Thanksgiving at the Tillotsons!

(It tasted a lot better than it looks....)

Brigs seriously DEVOURED the food! I have never seen him eat so much or so willingly!!! Im taking that as the highest compliment, since he has hardly been eating ANYTHING these days!! He loved the pumpkin pie too...but I figured he would, since his favorite breakfast is pumpkin oatmeal!!