It's Beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!!!!

Christmas celebrating is in full swing at the Hugo home! The Saturday after Thanksgiving Ben took the boys out to find our tree! Ben and I have differing opinions about the best Christmas tree (real vs fake) and for now, Ben is winning- so a real tree it is! I'll admit, our house does smell lovely, even though I'm sweeping up lots of pine needles. We got out the rest of our Christmas decorations and our house is looking quite festive!

The kids were chomping at the bit to decorate the tree, but we made them wait until that evening. They loved going through all the ornaments and were both so excited about the tree. They play with it all the time now (and have only broken like one ornament...in three days...). After dinner we did our tradition of letting them open one present- their Christmas jammies! Both boys were surprisingly thrilled with their jammies and immediately put them on. Then we cuddled up as a family to watch "The Polar Express" (which is honestly kind of a strange movie- but the kids love it). I love this little tradition, it just gets us all in the holiday spirit!

 Hudson definitely thought it was actually Christmas that night and told Chase as the movie ended "Come on Chase, let's go to bed so Santa will come!" It may be a long month for him.

Sunday we busted out their Christmas outfits for church! Hudson's is actually Chase's from two years ago, but Hudson has been longingly gazing at that train vest in his drawer for months now and was thrilled he finally got to wear it. Chase is really just wearing a new tie with his usual shirt and pants, but I still think he looks super festive!

 I'm a big fan of starting off all our Christmas activities early in the month, and thus enjoying the Christmas celebrating at a relaxed pace, instead of a mad rush the week before Christmas. Last year when the flu hit us right before Christmas I was so glad we didn't still have a long list of "Christmas to-dos". So we hit up Santa first thing! We love the Santa at Station Park. He has his own little house and there was absolutely no line, so the boys got to spend a little time chatting with the old man. Chase explained in great detail the toy he's hoping to get for Christmas (a motorized backhoe, with an interchangeable snow-plow blade and cement mixer addition- aka- not an actual toy that anyone makes- which I had Santa help explain to him, but that something similar might end up under the tree for him).

 Hudson was definitely more interested in the prospect of getting a candy cane, but did tell Santa he also wanted a backhoe- basically that he wants what Chase wants. It is so fun to have the boys at these ages during this time of year- their pure belief and excitement is contagious and I'm loving it!