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

December has already been a fun and busy month!

We walked in the Merced Christmas parade with Grandma Lockridge's float from work:

Levi with Grandma and Grandpa Lockridge

One of the other floats thought Levi was so cute they gave him a pair of reindeer antlers :)

Then we drove straight to Modesto and dropped the boys off with Grandma and Grandpa Harden at the Modesto Christmas parade so Dave and I could have a date night. Thanks for the night off!

Ringing our jingle bells with Grammy!
Levi loved all the cars covered in lights and even got to see Uncle Mikey riding on a horse. 

And we've been decorating the house! 

Ok, not a lot going on in here but I found a discount website for those glass jars behind the sink and filled them with ornaments from Big Lots. Yay for good deals! 

Our staircase wrapped with garland and our improvised place to hang out stockings. No fireplace :(

Our tree! Biggest one yet and picked again on the first try. We're super fast tree picker-outers. 

We had to add another stocking to our collection this year.

My tree skirt splurge. I love having our names on things! :)

Not quite dark outside, but you get the idea. Dave spent two days putting up lights this year. He diagramed and planned exactly how he was going to do the lights and was exactly right. Except that the lights we brought home were a "cool white" which means they were actually blue. :( So after worrying about it for a night, Dave decided to take them down and put them all back up with a "warm white" color. They look great and we're so happy with them!

And Santa came a little early this year for our big little guy:

This gives us some place to get our energy out inside the house. We've been wondering what to put in our playroom and looks like we found it. Levi definitely approves!

One last shot of our littlest guy with his favorite Mommy.

Mommy's Christmas came early this year too... Levi is back to sleeping through the night (thank the LORD) and Caleb has given us a week of 5, 6 hour stretches and then this weekend he went 7 hours straight and then the next night went 9 hours straight! I'm not cocky enough to think that this will happen every night but this was unheard of with Levi at this age so I'm feeling very lucky and pretty well rested. We'll see how it goes on our big trips in the next two weeks...

Merry Christmas everyone!