Hurry Santa!!!

Wow! Have we been busy around here! There has been a lot of talk about Christmas, Jesus' birthday, and Santa... All of it seems pretty exciting! Mommy, Daddy, and I (plus a whole bunch of friends) spent the day out in the woods searching for the perfect tree. Even though I had a lot of fun I was pretty frustrated by my stupid mittens and didn't want to wear them at all. The temperature was around 15 degrees so as you can imagine my fingers were like ice cubes. It hurt really bad and I spent a lot of time really upset about it.  In the end, our day was a success and mommy picked us a beautiful (but really big!) tree!  After we got home from tree hunting and mommy had put me to bed, she and daddy stayed up really late decorating our house to look like a winter wonderland! You can imagine my surprise the next morning when I woke up to find all of the beautiful decorations. Mommy was so busy watching my face that she forgot to take pictures and daddy was busy running the video camera! 

Then... As if all of that wasn't enough... My Nonna and Nono came to visit me! Nonna and mommy spent a whole day hanging snowflakes up around the house which made it even prettier. My favorite part was when I got to help make and decorate sugar cookies! I even got to have "champagne" with mommy and Nonna!  For some reason mommy kept calling it sparkling water... I don't know the difference really but I know the pretty glass and raspberries made me feel very special!  While Nonna and Nono were here I got to go and visit Santa too! I wasn't really scared but I preferred to keep my distance. 

Then... This last weekend daddy planned a special surprise for mommy and we all went up to a cabin at Hyatt Lake to celebrate her birthday! Our good friends Marc, Heather, and Jace came too! Jace and I had a lot of fun playing up in the loft but then I fell and hurt myself pretty bad so we weren't allowed to go up there anymore. We still had lots of fun... Like sledding in the snow, drinking hot cocoa, and eating a birthday cake that I made especially for mommy!!