Thanksgiving was hijacked

Dear Thanksgiving,

For whatever reason, I NEEDED Christmas to come early this year.  Not the presents or parties... just the spirit of Christmas.  Just the joy and peace... just the beauty.  Holt wasn't thrilled BUT he let me hijack Christmas.

T and I shopped all day for a few special ornaments and some additions to his train sets.  He wants people and "things" to add to his train scene.  It's all he talks about right now.  And, of course, Holt is all in.  I took T to the train store yesterday and we bought some more deer and cows.  Cows? Yes... because (wait for it...) the cows came with poop.  Yup, you read that right.  Cows and poop.  What boy can resist that.

So a taste from yesterday.  Hope it warms your heart as it did mine.

We went tree shopping (and pretended to cut it down!)

and brought it home to trim her up!

the boys were hard at work... I supervised

and made things pretty :)

This is my new Advent calendar. I told Tristan what the purpose was.  I was curious how he would react when I told him that instead of little treats for him...

there was a daily thing for our family to do to bless SOMEONE ELSE this Christmas.

He said "yeaaaaaah - bless other people!!" (WHEW!)

He's started preparing the Manger

because it will be part of his trains village.  We all need Jesus in our towns :)

and of course you have to have reindeer, cows (and their poop) and a good army

Daddy was busy getting the tree straight

and the candy cane lights were added.  (I caved, red and white it is!)

Tristan even brought Paula Bear in to watch (AAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!!!)

and we showed off Daddy's new ornament 

(it's Duke!!)

The lights and the stars are ready so we loaded up the decorations.

It was really cool, I told Tristan a ton of fun stories about my decorations and told him that we would buy HIM a decoration to have for his tree some day...

Well, there you have it

Coffee at 5am staring at this, listening to some Christmas Carols while doing my Bible study.

THIS is how you start your day right.

Sorry Thanksgiving, I didn't mean to steal your thunder but hey, at least I'm really, REALLY feeling thankful.  That's the point, right?

Off to get my turkey out of the oven.  My house smells of both holidays and I love it!!