Getting in the Christmas Spirit

We came home from our travels, did the birthday celebrations, but also remembered to get ourselves in the Christmas spirit.  Our Christmas decor was up within a few days of being home, and we've had Christmas movies and music going ever since.  Pictures of Santa to come in a different post, but there's a couple of festive ones, in no particular order, that I'll share.

My Christmas cards were pretty uninspired this year - I did it last minute and just didn't put enough effort into getting the right picture.  Here's a few contenders from when I was playing around....

 Our first night in new Christmas jammies...

 Each one uniquely posed very differently...with zero instruction from me!

 All different...

 Mark went away for marathon #31 in Vegas/Hoover Dam, and we spent our time doing fun stuff.  We went out for breakfast, watched movies, went to basketball games, and had a pizza picnic dinner.  We also got some cutout cookies made.  I didn't have Mark to help take pictures while I was doing the cookies, so no pics from the dough rollout/actual cutout phase of the process, but we have a few from decorating.  Everyone had their own station with sprinkles and a tray of frosted cookies.

 Haha - this picture kills me.  We had braided Isla's hair in the morning, and this was like 6p later that night when it was definitely all over the place and falling out.

 Sawyer is the methodical one of the group...both she and Isla have since had hair cuts so they're a bit cleaned up now!

 And one showing all three working away.

 A few more outtakes - some pics on our bed.

 All cuddled up together.  In these pictures they almost look like they love each other - in stark contrast to the amazing fights that they have with each other.

 And last but not least, each girl got their own advent calendar this year - their very first one - and it's been so funny to see them run downstairs in the morning to get their little piece of candy out.  We also have a magnetic advent calendar tree where you add an ornament daily to count down the days, and they have an order they go in.  It is very serious.