It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas and Benjamin's Christmas Show

We decorated our house for Christmas on Thanksgiving day. A bit late, but here are some of our decorations. The boys love the counting down to Christmas with our Advent calendar.

This year, we also go them a Lego Advent calendar. Each morning they open a new window and they get to build a mini lego figure, that will fill out the Christmas scene.

Our fireplace.

The tree is up and ornaments are hung.

My parents gave us a new Hawaiian ornament with all of our names on it.

We got a new family picture ornament.

One of my favorites from when we got married and where it all began :).

The stockings for us 5 and Tes are hung...

We got a new Jordanian Christmas decoration. It's a recycled liquor bottle that is decorated with the Jordanian tribal pattern for the tree and the flag in the circle, and it lights up. Kind of tacky, but so Jordanian so I had to get it :).

We also got a new decorative Christmas plate from the Christmas market. It says Eid Milad, which means Merry Christmas in Arabic.

Love these 3 :).

Last weekend, Santa came to the Embassy on a camel. We missed him coming in because it was early and raining, but we made it for pictures with Santa. We got this picture from a friend who saw him.

A big first in this picture...first time in 7 years that Caleb wanted to sit on Santa's lap...and everyone was happy about it. 

Benjamin went back for rounds 2, 3, and 4 on Santa's lap when it was free :).

The Marines were collecting toys for orphaned children and taking pictures with the kids. We are very thankful for the strong Marine Guard detachment at the Embassy and for their service to our country.

Afterwards, we went to a Christmas Bazaar at the kids school. I don't have any pictures of the bazaar, but afterwards, Caleb gave us a tour of his library and showed us his favorite isle to check out books - Fantasy and SciFi.

Benjamin took us to his art class, which is his favorite special class.

Yesterday we had Benjamin's kindergarten Christmas show at school, and it was super cute. Here are a couple of pictures and videos. 

We have been enjoying the learning about the Christmas season and having fun activities throughout the month!