It's beginning to look a lot....

...like Christmas!

Even if things look different, some things still continue or are have been added this year for more Christmas fun!

We got our Christmas tree, made press cookies and hard-tack candy, and took a short trip down the road to see an indoor-Christmas-tree-display (75 trees!). The kids are having fun this season, just hoping for more snow :)

(Our tree now has an angel on top. When put in the shaker at the tree-farm, the top "branch" came flying off! April grabbed it, we brought it home and it's now stuck back on holding the angel!)

Kevin oversees the making of the press cookies each year. His mom made them growing up. If we didn't have children, we'd only ever make the tree shape. This year, the kiddos convinced him to make wreaths and camels!

The day after Thanksgiving is when we usually make hard-tack candy. Most of the kids helped this year, but I just snapped these ones of Peter helping with Aunt Laura.

I grew up going to this store/greenhouse/toy shop. You can walk through the display at Christmas and Easter. Every tree is decorated with a different theme and you can find all the ornaments and decorations on sale. The kids loved it! We walked through twice :)

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