The Polar Express

We had a big weekend with lots of activities! Sunday we went on the Santa train in Canon City. It's a lot like the Polar Express, we wore our jammies, had cocoa and cookies and went to the North Pole. It was really cute.



Alyssa and Mason in their Christmas jammies. (Thats our new family picture in the background, love it!)



Sweet boy



Mason looks huge! He's really not that big!




Getting ready to board the train.









Mason spent about half the train ride looking out the window like this. He loved looking out the window even when there wasn't much to see. It was nice that he was so entertained!





The "real" Santa



Telling Santa she wants a dollhouse for Christmas. My mom, Bethany and I have been working on restoring a dollhouse that has been in our family for 100 years. My great, great grandfather made it for my great grandmother in 1910. Then my grandma had it when she was little. My grandma gave it to me for Christmas when I was 3, and now it's going on to the next generation. I'm really excited to give it to her and hopefully she won't mind that it's not from Santa.

It's been really fun doing all this christmasy stuff, but I hope Alyssa isn't missing the true meaning of Christmas. How easy it is to get busy and wrapped up in all things "Christmas" and not focus on what truly matters. We are reading through the Christmas story and doing a cute little nativity activity. I really hope her 4 year old heart can understand a little of the miracle of Jesus being born as a baby, for us.