Baby's First Christmas

What to get a baby for his first Christmas?

Cam will be 9 months old by the time Christmas rolls around, and

while he is mobile, and ooo and ahhh's at the twinkle lights, he isn't exactly

the age in which he understands what is going on.

I am pretty sure he is going to be more mesmerized by the ripping of

wrapping paper than any new toy he might recieve.

Let's be real...I could give him a container of prunes and he would give me his gummy grin and exchange a slobbery chin bite kiss in return!

But I still want to make his day special.

And I still want to be Santa!

SO.  Here are a few things I have on Cam's Very 1st Christmas List:

{creme sherpa anywhere chair} {boon frog bath storage}{moccasins} {activity bouncer} {sort and tip truck} {boon flair pedestal highchair}

And we can't forget stocking stuffers!

{stocking}{boon water bugs} {boon odd ducks} {knit beanie} {little man onesie} {the snowy day}

with a few special treats (i.e. yogurt melts and puffs;)

I'm curious...what did/are you doing for your baby's First Christmas?
 

Christmas Bucket List

Three busy, busy, BUSY weeks to cram all the holiday festiveness fun into...it's going to be a challenge but I accept!  Here is the Adams Family Christmas Bucket List...

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1.  Watch all of our favorite Christmas movies: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Home Alone 1& 2, Frosty, The Holiday, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Charlie Brown Christmas, I'll Be Home For Christmas (JTT anyone?:)  Jingle All The Way AND of course enjoy ABC family's Christmas Countdown and all of the Hallmark Channel movies!

2.  Watch the Rockefeller Tree Lighting Special.  Marking this one off as I type and attempt to keep Cam from making our twinkle lights supper!

3.  Turn our home into a Christmas wonderland:)  Almost there!  "Is your house on fire, Clark?" "Are we at the airport?"

4.  Go to Dollywood and the Dixie Stampede...if your in the South-you MUST go to Pigeon Forge during the holidays:)

5.  Host our 4th annal Christmas Mustache Breakfast!

6.  Be SANTA for the first time EVER! 

7.  Send Christmas Cards (This is unhealthily exciting to me...sending and receiving)

8.  Make my great grandpa's famous sugar cookies:)

9.  Go see the Grove Park Inn Christmas Gingerbread Houses!
10.  Christmas Shop...I don't think this will be finished until Dec 23...I am the worlds worst to procrastinate!

11.  Host our 2nd Annual Pizza & Macaroni Home Alone Dinner & Movie!  "A nice cheese pizza just for me."  "God bless this nutritious meal of macoroni cheese and the people who made it."

12.  Do a box for operation christmas child.

13.Read the Christmas Story from the Bible...and I am following this Christmas verse countdown.

14.  Allow myself one mug of WHITE hot chocolate...it's sinful but oh so good.

15.  Holidize Cam's Nursery!  It's in progress:)

16.  Read Cam his first Christmas stories...The Grich, The Night Before Christmas, The Polar Express, Drama Drama Holiday Llama, A Christmas Carol, God Gave Us Christmas

17.  Introduce Cam to "No Name."  His Elf.  I couldn't resist the Elf On the Shelf this year.  "No Name" is in training aka hanging out in Cam's room this year scoping out and planning for the upcoming years, learning Cam,  and awaiting the day when Cam will be able to name him.  I.  Can't.  Wait.

18.  Drive around and look at lights with a to go cup of hot chocolate.

19.  Photo with Santa

20.  Listen to Christmas Music (been doing so since September)

21.  Create a new Christmas chalk every week until Christmas

22.  Have a candle light dinner on December 21st, the longest day of the year!

23.  Wear all the Christmas PJ's we can squeeze into the month of December

24.  Go sledding/ and or ice skating (which I couldn't last year d/t being preggo!)

25. Go Christmas caroling:)

26.  Drink egg nog from our Christmas Vacay moose mugs
27.  Eat some more turkey and dressing:)  "Save the neck for me Clark!"

I hope I didn't leave any out!  What are some of your favorite Christmas traditions or to-do's?

 



Merry December!

Happy December friends!

I can't believe we are well into the holiday season...

Can you?

Turkey Day overload ƒor Cam!

I hope everyone had a perfect Thanksgiving!

Mine was full of love, snow, a bit of work, and A LOT of blessings.

"Oh give thanks unto the Lord,

for he is good; his mercy endureth forever" -Psalms 107

Our Thanksgiving began with a snow storm!
On my way home from work Wednesday, I was sliding all over the place.
Luckily...I got behind a snow plow and made it home to my boys just in time for our
1st annual Thanksgiving Eve Low Country Boil with friends.

Thanksgiving morning Cam and I caught his First Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, a tradition I have always enjoyed since I was a little girl!
Snoopy was once again the highlight of the parade for us
(we also enjoyed the Duck Dynasty Crew:)

We trudged our way through the remaining snow to our family-neighbors for our first Thanksgiving feast and then headed to Knoxville for our final meal and mingle and some sane calm Black Friday shopping.

No I am not into making the holidays commercialized, but there is something thåt always excites me about staying up all night and shopping (or people watching) during the Black Friday madness!

Did you man the crowds this year?

Cam scoping out Black Friday Ads...

I did score a couple of great deals, but I am (as usual) no where near finished with Santa's to do list!

And here we are again.

Beginning my favorite month of the year!

My heart is happy as I have Jesus in my soul, turkey and dressing in my stomach, and Christmas in my bones as it is just around the corner!

 We're cranking up the Christmas tunes & movie marathons, stringing the twinkle lights, training our Christmas Cookie to wear holiday sweaters, and dusting off other festive odds and ends from the attic here at the Adams household!

I.  just. love it.

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