Merry Christmas from the Hillens

I just love opening mail this time of year! Christmas cards are so much more fun to receive than bills!! I ordered our family cards from Tiny Prints this year and I absolutely LOVE them!! I also LOVED our family pics my friend Heather (check out her super cute blog) took for us...I plan on getting a new blog header with these pics. I was beyond impressed with the selection and the customer service at Tiny Prints!! I addressed them for our family and friends on Monday and hope to get them mailed very soon! I usually write a letter to send to my family but I've been so busy with my first graders and after school activities(not to mention trying to tackle the never ending laundry pile) with Emma and Max this week that I just about collapse at the end of the day!

I saw that some other blogs I follow shared their Christmas cards and thought it would be fun to link up with Walk With Me by Faith for the Christmas Card Carousel.

Merry Christmas and many blessings for 2012 from our family to yours!!

Mommy and Me Monday: Princess Edition

After a very busy but extremely fun weekend I am so excited that we have five days of school and then we will be off for two glorious weeks!! Now I just have to get through this week of craziness without losing my mind!! I plan on trying to enjoy every minute and believe me I've prayed for some extra patience with my first graders!!

Yesterday we went to Bippidy Boppidy Boutique with Emma and my nieces Hannah, Rachel, Allie, and Elizabeth at the Magic Kingdom and let's just say that it was beyond precious and my little Princess is still smiling this morning!!

Here's one pic! There are about 200 more just waiting to share!

**I just realized I have the same sweater on from my last mommy and me Monday. I promise I have different clothes but this one is new! ha ha!**

our Christmas tree

Friday after school I rushed home so we could make it to the Christmas tree farm in time. It closed at 6pm. We made it to Lazy Lay Acres with about five minutes until closing time. We wanted to cut down our own tree but by the time we got there it was so dark. We noticed that there were also not many trees to choose from to cut ourselves. I was bummed but sometimes the best laid plans don't always work out. The mosquitos were awful and I noticed $80+ price tags on already cut trees that were not what we were looking for...they seemed a little dry. So we headed to another tree farm about 15 miles away that was open later...Ergle's! We've been there before(to get our pumpkin) but they don't have many to cut yourselves and it was so dark so we couldn't go out. We decided to look through the fragrant frasier firs and find our tree. The kids had so much fun and couldn't wait to get the tree home to start decorating!

Emma said she was freezing and Max was being sweet trying to warm her up. I gave her my scarf too!!

Love my boys!!

Let's get this tree...it's so big!!!