"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!"

We all had such a great time getting ready for Christmas this year - we had so many fun friend parties and family and work events - it was a great month!

The first things we did to get ready around here was to set up the tree and "inside" decorations.  Everything was so new to the triplets so they were loving every single moment

Austin and I were trying to separate out of tree branches - he is honestly the biggest helper!  He loves to do what mom and dad are doing at all times.

Little dark and Jax's eyes look a little creepy but  here we are showing off our little tree helpers

Whew!  We got the tree done and Spence was the last finisher way up top of our tree - little cuties!!

This pic was taken at Spence's work family party - Ho-Ho-Ho! 

Santa looks a little bit worried to have all 3 sitting on him :)

Later that day, we all got out the ornaments since we didnt' have time to put them on after setting up the actual tree a few days earlier.  Here's Rio with her little section that she decorated

And here's my Jax being extra protective of "his stuff" - he was really worried all night about people moving the ornaments that he had set up so he kept taking them off and putting them into his box as you can see by his foot.  Silly kid!  It took a lot of persuading and reassuring but he finally realized that no one would move "his stuff"

Austin honestly just couldn't get enough of it!  He loved to put the ornaments on the tree and was so diligent about taking care of each one - isn't this the sweetest picture??

One more Austin... he wanted mommy's help

Jax had one more too and did not want my help :)

Lennox joined in the fun too!  I wish dogs eyes wouldn't look so funny in pictures - I can't seem to fix them - o-well, he's super cute anyway

Here we all are!  All done!

When we set up the tree, we also set up the little nativity that I have -

these cute kids were so gentle with all the figures but really wanted to know the story about baby Jesus so it was so fun to use all the characters to tell the Christmas story to these eager little learners

I have to say however, that even more than the tree...their favorite part of all the decorations were all the little snowmen that we had.  These little snowmen became their best friends this month - they would sleep with them and carry them around and they even went on car rides with us!

Love all the beautiful decorations this month - it really brings the excitement of the holiday.