IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK ALOT LIKE CHRISTMAS . . .

Another one of my favorite parts about Thanksgiving weekend is getting all the Christmas decorations out and decorating the house!! We have a whole grip of outside stuff, lights lights and more lights so that usually takes the most time and is atleast a 2 day job if not 3 ... thank goodness my husband is such a trooper!!

This year both the boys wanted to help Clay hang the lights and were right there on the ladder with him learning the ropes .. hahaaa!!

Once it's dark outside, we come inside to set up the tree and get it ready for ornaments!! But before we can even begin decorating the tree, I have 3 rules:

1. We have to be jammin' Christmas music (probably Clay's least favorite part of the whole weekend).

2. We have to have a fire burning in the fireplace.

3. We have to have Hot Coco (spiked for mommy & daddy ... we have an awesome hot coco cocktail recipe that is da bomb ... lol ... Coco with a shot of Malibu and a shot of Peach Snapps ... yummy yummy!!).

Once we have Momma's 3 rules taken care of, we turn the kids loose with any and all unbreakable ornaments!! I have to admit that our tree is finally starting to look half way normal as the kids get taller and the ornaments go higher up which has not been the case in years past!! Once the kids get all the unbreakable ornaments put on I put the breakable one's around the top portion to somewhat even it out along with keep them out of both the kids and the dog's tail's reach. The kids also have their own smaller tree that we put up with all their special ornaments (every year I get each kid an ornament that reflects something about them from that year) and this year we also started collecting Disney ornaments as well that we put on the kids tree!! My hopes are to eventually have enough Disney ornaments to set up another tree that is all Disney ... my Aunt has one with Disney ornaments from back when we were kids that I absolutely love!!!

Sunday is always reserved for letter's to Santa and usually the day that our elf "Zart" magically appears to watch over us!!

This time of year is so much fun ... I just love all the smells and the excitement in the air!! I am proud to report that our house was 100% decorated inside and out by the end of Thanksgiving weekend and that's a record for the Kaintz household!!! Tis The Season!!!