This Year's Pre-Christmas Essentials

So I've been planning this post for a while, I even took pictures in preparation for this post, and then...well We got so busy with the Christmas festivities I didn't even create it! So, I'm doing it now. Enjoy!

We made Gingerbread Houses with our friends. Well, Shawn and I bought a kit, and made a Train...
We Decorated our Real Live Christmas treeWe have Advent Calendars to count down to Christmas Day, one for each of us--The Felt one for Shawn from his Mom, and the Chocolate one for me!There is also an honorary puzzle at Christmas time. This Mickey is one of those Photomosaic Puzzles...It took me two weeks! By far the hardest puzzle I've ever done, except for that Elvis puzzle I worked on my second year in college...Ugh!
And of course-the Lights at Temple Square! We had a wonderful time with Jay and Heather. We were there the perfect length of time, we saw everything without freezing to death!

We hope you all had a wonderful holiday, and a Happy New Year!