If you haven’t noticed by our holiday gift guide, we are crazy busy around here getting everything ready for the holidays. It’s hard to believe that Thanksgiving is just over a week away and before we know it, we’ll be celebrating Ellie’s 3rd birthday and then Christmas will be here.

Before we jump ahead to Christmas, we have a few plans in store to celebrate the holidays around here starting with attending a few community events.

As I’ve mentioned in the past, living in Green Bay, we are lucky to have the Packers and their generosity.  Every year, there is a family friendly event at Lambeau Field, that is free to the public.  The kids get to decorate Christmas cookies, listen to a choir, visit Santa and more and it is always a lot of fun for everyone.  This will be one of the things we are doing in the upcoming weeks and we can’t wait.

Another item on the agenda this year is to head out and cut down our own Christmas tree.  We haven’t had a real tree since the year before Ellie was born and I’ve decided that it is time to bring a real tree back into our house and why not go cut it down ourselves?  It should be a lot of fun and the kids are pretty excited.

Since most of the excitement isn’t taking place until after Thanksgiving, we’ve kicked off the season with just getting the lights up on the house so I will share (a not so perfect) picture of the house with our new lights.  

What are you doing to kick off the holiday season?