Advent Season!

This is by far my FAVORITE time of the year!! We are really getting into the Advent Season, even though it's 75 degrees outside.

Santa sent a sweet elf, that we named Jedo to our house last week!!  He's enjoyed a marshmellow bubble bath and drank nearly a whole bottle of syrup so far!!  Kaleigh and Alec love to see who can find him first every morning!  Sis giggles and points at him when she finds him!

Alec and Kaleigh made and painted salt dough Christmas ornaments to give our family this year!

Kaleigh thought it was more fun to paint her hands!

Saturday morning, Dustin had drill and I took the kids to the Hattieburg Christmas parade.  The kids were beyond thrilled when they saw Santa in the parade!!  He even threw Kaleigh a stuffed animal!  (And I made this Christmas dress too!)

After the parade, we had family day at drill so we headed over to Dad's office!  We picked Dad up and went to the his unit's Christmas Party at the Hattiesburg Cultural Center.

Kaleigh got in Mr. Billy's lap so she could have a better view of SANTA!  She likes Santa ONLY from a distance!!

Dad and Mr. Clyde checking out all of the goodies that Santa brought for Alec!

Kaleigh, Mrs. Leigh and Peyton looking at her toys from Santa!

Dad even got to participate in the program!  He presented all kids of soldiers with special awards!  We were pretty impressed with Dad's presentation!

After all of our fun on Saturday, I woke up with a HORRIBLE crick in my neck from carrying Kaleigh all day.  We'd already planned to go get our tree that we had picked out after church and Alec had a friends birthday party Sunday afternoon.  I'm pretty impressed that Dad took Kaleigh and the tree home while Alec and I went to the party.  He even got it in the stand and the floor vaccummed with his little helper!  Then he took Kaleigh to Laurel with him for a few hours too!  Go DAD!!

So sweet, my little helpers decorating the tree!