It's Christmas time!

Jack has been ready for Christmas and to open presents since the day we put up the tree. I can imagine at 3 years old the time is just creeping by. We've started to count down the days now that we're in single digits. This morning he crawled into bed with me and said, "Mom, today is it 5 days until Christmas?" That's what we talked about all day yesterday. I said, "No, Jack. Today it's FOUR days until Christmas!" His eyes just lit up. We did get a little taste of Christmas a couple of weeks ago, Jarred's mom and grandmother came to visit for a week. We took Mamaw to the Biltmore for her birthday and got to experience the candlelight evenings. It is truly beautiful and for a couple of hours you can picture yourself living in the huge house! It would have been fun, I think! We were able to get our presents from Jarred's family and we shopped for Jack. We were going to wait until Christmas for him to open his presents but we decided it would be more fun if he could open them while they were here. He got a game, lego set, another construction set, a guitar and a helicopter. He was excited. That really got him in the mood to open presents. We also managed a trip to Pigeon Forge and picked up a few (or more) things for Little Pink John Deere. (We have yet to determine if this will be her official name). We're spending the next few days getting things ready to head to Popo & Moma Jo's for Christmas. Kelly, Ryan & Abbott will be coming over on Wednesday and we can't wait! We hope you all have a very Merry Christmas, too and get to spend time with people you love! Stay tuned for Christmas pictures!

We couldn't take pictures on the inside, but Jarred got this one of the house.

Jack found great enjoyment from the wrapping paper rolls. I wonder why we buy real toys.

We got snow! I posted more pictures of the snow but forgot this one. I thought it was cute of him trying to catch the snowflakes.

Getting to open his presents from Grandma & Mamaw.

What could it be?

His first guitar.

We had a great visit with them!

Of course, we got to see Santa. He wasn't scared. In fact he was very excited to see Santa & tell him what he wanted. The picture looks like he's less than thrilled but he made a very goofy face in the first picture so we told the camera guy not to tell him to smile!

Merry Christmas!