Letters from Santa

Both of the kids wrote their letters to Santa! A few things I want to remember. Kade did his all by himself from start to finish. He sounded out words and tried his best at spelling. It might be my favorite of all his letters to Santa! It's adorable! And Ella's letter was the first time she wrote her name and Santa's! My kids are getting so big!!!! I'm so proud of them! 

Bryan likes to sing Kade's list to the 12 days before Christmas because everything had a number in front of it. Haha! 

Ella's Christmas list has been changing daily. At that moment this was what she was hoping for. A few of my favorites that she has thrown out from time to time have been a real unicorn, repunzal's castle that is as tall as the trees in our backyard, and a potion set that does real potions. Oh how I love that girl. Her imagination is something else! 

Gorgeous weather!!

Cutest. baby. ever.

Hahahahahaha!!

Christmas cookies

They have been begging to bake and decorate some cookies so we busted out the Christmas cookies cutters and got to work. In the past I've already dreaded doing this because it is a lot of work for me but this year was different. I think because they are getting older but it was a lot of fun this year.

This is Kade's new picture taking face..

Same picture but two years prior! 

So proud of their creations! 

Nutcracker, parade, and lights

Last year we took Ella to a short version of the Nutcracker and she loved it! I would say she talked about it almost daily for a year. This year I wanted to take her to the really thing. I found a small ballet company that put it on in Annapolis and decided to go. It was pretty cheap so if we needed to leave early it would have been ok. Ella LOVED it! She was sad at intermission because she thought it was already over. I don't think she moved an inch the entire time! I was really impressed and I can wait to make this a yearly outing! 

She was so cute dancing and spinning after it was over.

Since we were in Annapolis we went to dinner and stayed for the boat parade!

Sweet baby girl is such a trooper! 

Star Wars boats! 

On the drive home we stopped through a park that does a drive through light display. These guys loved it! This was such a busy but really fun day! 

This picture of Kade made me laugh out loud. :) 

This setup was our favorite!

Breakfast with Santa!

We had breakfast with the big guy this weekend!! Kade and Ella were sooooo excited to finally see Santa! 

I asked for a pic beforehand and this is what I got! Ha! 

I loooove this picture. It's so precious.