Pictures of Christmas pasts..

Here's my little monkey during his first Christmas, it was spent in North Carolina, Iowa and Colorado. Three different christmas's in three different states. He was only 4 months!! And working on this 3rd teeth that whole weekend and every outfit was soaked in minutes.

Second Christmas, spent in Iowa getting ready to leave for almost 7 months in Sweden.

Last Christmas- also spent in Iowa. Is it crazy that I can remember his first and second Christmas so vividly, but last year is kind of a blur? Sad.

And this year. He wasn't quite as willing to take pictures this year. I thought it was supposed to get easier to get him to cooperate as he got older, not the other way around.

Is it too early to put out Christmas decorations??

I wanna do it right Nooooow! We always do it pretty early because we are never here for Christmas and I want to be able to enjoy it for a while before we leave for Iowa for Christmas, but yes, I realize it's still a little too early.

What are some Holiday traditions you guys have?

I had a ton growing up- but as Drew and I started our own family we wanted to start making our own traditions.

Our first Christmas as a family we were Juniors in college- with no decorations and very little money. I so badly wanted to go spend a ton of money on decorations to make our apartment feel like my moms house at christmas,- but instead my mom gave me a few pieces of decoration from her collection- we bought a little (fake) tree and some lights and decided that ever year we would each pick out one christmas ornament for a tree. So the first year we just had 3 special ornaments (plus the ugly balls) but our 2nd Christmas we had 6! And this year after we go shopping we will have 12, special, meaningful handpicked Christmas ornaments.

I'd love to hear about all your cozy traditions