Christmas Time!!!!

Wow does time ever fly! Christmas is now about a week away! I feel pretty ready, we have almost all gifts bought and wrapped.  Tonight the plan is to snuggle up with the kiddos and watch Charlie Brown Christmas on t.v.  Possibly do some baking, we've got two parties this weekend and four Christmas's next weekend so we are busy! I plan on making some new things from a new blog I found called "Chef in Training".  She has some awesome recipes.  The kids pretty much want everything they see, when Mason had the opportunity to sit on Santa's lap he told him he would like a chainsaw for Christmas! Yep, that's Mason alright! Abby wants a password journal and elf on a shelf.  The kids' Christmas program at church is this weekend and I'm very excited to watch it as its Mason's first one! Last night I went to a friends' church program in Marshalltown and it was a beautiful program with dinner and Christmas music.  But the best part was at the end, the choir director reminded us to try not to get so caught up in the "busyness" and stress of the season and just relax and enjoy and remember why we celebrate it in the first place.  Our precious savior's birth!