December Daily Giveaways: Elle's Studio + Evalicious

I am looking forward to watching my 2 & 4 yr old daughters experience the magic of the season. From baking gingerbread cookies to decorating the house....i'm so excited! i LOVE xmas!

Time with family. Time with my boys. Time with friends. A new advent celebration book is on it's way. Looking forward to sharing special quiet time with my boys and helping them in discovering just what CHRISTmas is all about. Really wanting to incorporate more of our faith into the hussle and bussle of the season. I love everything about the holidays but this year I'm looking for a better balance. Don't want to be so pooped by the 25th I can't enjoy it!:) Looking for the PEACE that only our savior brings!:)

Oooh! I covet, covet, covet these Christmas goodies - I might even get my Christmas journal done this year!

what fun goodies!!!!
i love the holiday season- everything about it, really.
this year though, my daughter will be almost 2 and will really get excited christmas morning. it will also be her last christmas without a sibling- we have baby # 2 due in May. It may sound silly, but I really want her to have a special christmas since it will be her last one with just mommy and daddy :)

Family, decorating, creating - of course, but time to relax, and reflect on the past year, the good, the not so good, and looking forward to what the next year brings.

After much sickness & hospitals last December, I am looking forward to a "normal" Christmas full of time with family and friends. Want to do all the traditions that were missed last year - decorating, gift making, etc. Thankful for a new season of Christmas.

I am looking forward to doing my first Daily December album!
Shopping the day after Thanksgiving- totally gets me in the mood!
Making lots of gifts
Spending time with my family- don't get to see them often enough anymore
sitting and gazing at the Christmas tree lights

I work full time and I feel I am never spending enough time with my little boys. The holidays and their magic give me the chance to feel like a real mom for once!!!

I am looking forward to baking cookies with my children, decorating my house with snowmen and my winter village, and spending lots of good quality time with my family and friends.

This Christmas, I AM MOST LOOKING FORWARD TO MY HUSBAND BEING HOME ON LEAVE FROM HIS ONE-YEAR DEPLOYMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST! I love ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING about Christmas -- most especially creating a warm holiday home with all of the decorating and all of our special traditions, but this year it will be EXTRA special to have our little family together since we are spending the rest of the year apart! (And we should remember that there are still MANY other military families who will not be able to be together for the holidays this year. Our family is lucky). Best wishes to your family, Ali! -- Jen

Shopping, baking, taking the annual Christmas photo and getting those out. Spending time with family, baking, visiting, and just so grateful that we have another year to look back on. So blessed!!

Oh these are adorable!
I can't believe it is HOLIDAY time again. I really do love this time of year. My Favorite thing about the holiday is spending time with my Family. We all try to make it home to Tennessee once a year. Everyone tries to make it there at Christmas Time-so we are all together during that time. That is what really makes it special. I now live in New Jersey and I have a sister who lives in California and the rest live in Tennessee.
Thanks so much Ali! I love your BLOG.
Anna Zuniga

Definitely getting time to spend as a family, all of us together.

I'm looking forward to taking lots of holiday pictures and trying my first Daily December album near a crackling fireplace listening to Christmas music :)

Last year we moved in 2 days before Christmas from Oregon to Utah. We couldn't find anything the movers packed, so our Christmas was the most minimal (there were positives about this). This year I look forward, though, to having a tree again and putting out white lights on our porch. Most of all, I want time to myself to create handmade holiday cards. Thanks for the chance to win.

So Many Traditions;
Gingerbread homes,
Snow Men & Angels,
Dressing "santa horse & dogs,"
Baking,
Decorations galore,
Tons of Pictures,
Cutting down our "Charlie Brown Tree,"
Spoiling three beautiful daughters (who are deserve every bit)
Love This Season!

First off, congrats on the big blog move!!!
Next, such cute, cute giveaways.
Last, in honor of the giveaways, I must admit that I, too, love spending time with friends and family during the holidays. But, I also love all the creativity that is prompted by this lovely season too!

The decorations and being with family. It just goes to quickly. Lots of hustle and bustle and it's over too fast.

I always look forward to creating new holiday traditions and honoring the old ones - hot chocolate and the Home Alone movie in front of the fireplace, each of us picking out a new ornament for the tree, just spending time with each other as a family - the most important of all!

What I'm most looking forward to is hosting Thanksgiving dinner at my house, and my husband making a movie with the kids. It's a fun tradition that they do every year and they all have a great time.