christmas in november

i love this picture!! the tree decorating from jillian's perspective :)

getting out the stockings

i believe this is the earliest we have ever decorated for christmas! well, considering we leave for the states on december 18th - i thought we better enjoy a few weeks of christmas in our home. last night we put up our little artificial tree (normally we get a "real" tree) and a few decorations.

i think the kids are really confused though... we hung up the stockings last night and the kids said this morning - did sinterklaas come last night and fill our stockings? i said no- sinterklaas fills shoes and santa claus fills stockings :)