Santa Claus is coming to town....

TOMORROW!!!!!!

After weeks of anticipation, Santa will finally be coming tomorrow! We have spent the month reading Christmas books, singing songs and watching Christmas movies and we have all been on our best behavior for the past few days in hopes of making it to the "Nice" list (just in case we all weren't there yet).

We have gone twice this month to visit Santa so the boys could tell him what they want for Christmas (and so I could get the Santa pictures I love so much) and each time, the list has gotten longer and longer. By the second visit, Ryan even had a list ready for Dylan, which of course included trains. Luckily, Dylan warmed up to Santa the more we saw him - I think it may have been due to the pep talk Ryan gave him "Dylan, Don't cry, Santa's nice. If you cry, he won't bring you any presents."

As everyone who knows me knows, I LOVE Christmas and everything about it - spending time with my family, wrapping presents, the music, and all of the wonderful traditions. Now that Ryan is old enough to understand about Christmas more, I was happy that this year we could start a new tradition of leaving milk and cookies for Santa and carrots for the reindeer. Both Jay and I did that as kids and I remember one year, Michael being about the same age Ryan is now and completely freaking out about the carrots being eaten one Christmas. Well, since we weren't going to be home Christmas Eve, we left treats at both Omi and Poppy's and Gamma and Papa's house (hope the reindeer like cucumbers too- oops)

Now it is time to go to bed because if Santa sees we are not sleeping, he might skip our house! As soon as Ryan got in bed, he told me that he heard the bells from the reindeer and that we needed to go check to see if Santa came. haha. Can't wait for tomorrow!!!

First Snowman

On Saturday around mid-day, it started snowing (the first snow of the year). I was in Westchester and by the time Jay got out of work, the roads were bad enough that we decided it would be safer to spend the night at Omi and Poppy's house and drive home in the morning. Ryan was really excited about the snow and was begging to go outside and play because he wanted to have a "snow fight". We told Ryan that if he ate all of his dinner, he could play outside for a little while and that we could play more in the morning. Luckily, he finished his soup and we went outside because by the time we woke up in the morning, almost all of the snow was gone. There was just enough snow to make a snowman - Ryan's first ever - complete with a corn-cob pipe and two eyes made out of coal.

I am having trouble getting the video of the snowball fight to load but I am working on it.