The most wonderful time of the year!!!

  The girls were so excited for Thanksgiving to see cousins but because they knew what came the next day...Christmas time!!!!  You should have seen their little faces when they saw all the snow Thanksgiving morning!!!  Needless to say these girls were over the moon when Sunday we pulled out all of the Christmas totes.  Keagan has been begging to watch Christmas movies so she was very happy to find them in the totes.

 They seriously danced and jumped around for 30 minutes

when we first turned on the Christmas music

   Gary and Sally gave us an artificial tree several years ago but Zach and I both love real trees and have never caved....until Cleo!!!  We are both a little worried about our 130lb fur baby and the tree as it is so we decided to go artificial this year!  Which the girls were super excited about because that means our tree goes up a week earlier!!!  We decided to do our tree in stages, first we would put it up and the lights.  Then we would decorate it the next day to maybe relieve Cleos stress a bit.  Seriously they aren't kidding when they say Great Danes are BIG BABIES!!!

 The girls love this nativity and seriously play with it everyday

Cleo was anxious of all of the decorations

Cleo needed a little extra loves...the tree stressed her out!!!

  Round 2 of decorating putting the decorations on the tree.  As we had predicted the decorations stressed Cleo out and she ate the buttons off the tree skirt!!!

They were so proud of their decorating!!!

  After round 2 Cleo did great for a couple days until we added the kids homemade foam ornaments. Apparently sparkles and glitter are a threat to the family and Cleo chewed them to pieces :(.  Which made this Mommy and two little girls very sad.  She has done great since thus said incident so we are hoping that's the end of that!

  So we are officially ready to bring on Christmas and all the fun!!!