Is it Christmas yet?

Friday night mom and I went to the Festival of the Trees (benefit for the ADD -Advocates for Developmentally Disabled). We always have a good time there. Mom gets to pick out a tree for her work. It's amazing how giving people in the community are, even through these tough times.

Saturday we headed to Eau Claire to see Papa John and Yaya. Yaya had to work, but we made sure to stop in to see her a couple of times. We had a really great day with John. We went to eat lunch at the A&W and the boys thought it was awesome because they got hot dogs and mini corn dogs, along with root beer. We don't drink a lot of pop, so they thought it was the coolest, plus....there are not too many places that have hot dogs on their kids menu.

We then went downtown to the Children's Museum which is right by where Yaya works. The boys (Papa John and Matt included) had a blast. It's a really neat place - very similar to the Children's Museum in the cities, but to a smaller scale. I was impressed.

We then went to go get our Christmas tree. We have done this with John and Lynn now for the past 4 years, so it's a fun tradition. We didn't go to the place we normally go to because of time, but still made it to a really cute tree farm and had a good time picking out our tree.

We got home pretty late Saturday night, but it was worth it. What a great day.

Sunday we went to church and then went to breakfast with Santa with Grandma and Grandpa. This breakfast is a continuation of the Festival of the Trees. We ate breakfast and got to talk to Santa and got some pictures. Connor whispered in my ear that he wasn't the real Santa, only a helper, because there is no way the real Santa could do all the things that he does before Christmas. (At least he still believes there is a real Santa! - I think it's going to be hard to keep him believing - he's just too much of a thinker!) It was cute though, he said the same thing to Grandma, but told her he had to whisper it so that Jacob and Nolan didn't hear. ;) Good big brother!
He is asking Santa for a DS and we do not want him to nor think he needs one of these yet. MAYBE someday...but not for awhile. We had to have a talk about how Santa knows how mom and dad feel and unfortunately even though the child might really want something, Santa always follows mom and dad's wishes. We had some eyes fill up with water, but he handled it very well. ;) What a mean mom and dad!

In the afternoon Matt set up the tree and moved the furniture around. We won't decorate it until after Thanksgiving, but it's fun having the tree up.

I love Thanksgiving, and we have so much to be thankful for, so I don't want it to get overlooked (thank goodness for the countdown chain that Jacob made in school so that we stay focused on Thanksgiving), but boy am I excited for Christmas!