cait + create: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

It's starting to feel like Christmas around here...

We let the kids talk us into going and getting a tree last night :)

They were so excited!

Even Dalton was prancing around the house dragging a string of beads.

Here are some of my favorite Christmas decorations:

Hand carved Nativity that I brought back from Brazil:

I don't know what to call these, but I love them!

My mom bought them for me, and we hang one on each side of our stockings.

Santa's Key:

This is new this year.

Brittany bought it for the kids.

Since we live in a small townhouse, without a fireplace, my kids were concerned that Santa wouldn't be able to get in. Brittany bought them this "magic Santa key" so that Santa can find a way in.

Believe in the Magic.

Everything about Christmas feels like magic.

I love it and I can't help but feel happy.

I ordered this stained glass star for Dalton last year for his "first Christmas ornament."

I am so in love with it.

I'm tempted to order a whole set and make it the theme of my tree.

But I'm a little torn because then Dalton's ornament wouldn't be "special".

I can't decide what to do...

Each of the kids get to hang up their own ornaments every year.

They love it!

Sometimes I wish I had a pretty tree, but it makes my kids so happy to decorate the tree themselves that I don't mind. So, it looks a little messy, a little bottom-heavy (they can't reach very high), and a little homemade, but I love it. Each ornament is a little memory and I love watching my kids relive each memory as they hang