December Daily Giveaways: Elle's Studio + Evalicious

I'm looking forward to 2 weeks of vacation involving family, scrapbooking for perhaps an entire day or two and all the yummy food.

I'm looking forward to putting up the tree, the smell of the pine, the needles going everywhere, the kids decorating it! Oh, and the trip to pick it out first! The kids love this part too!

Just spending time with my family. My son recently moved away to college. My Mom is getting older. My poor husband is exhausted from a long season of wine making. We are going to try and enjoy each other and not worry so much about the number of presents under the tree. Just a SIMPLE Christmas. denise

Seeing the joy on my grandson's face when he sees the Christmas tree for the first time. (He'll be 7 months old.) Just like everyone else, enjoying the family and being thankful to have them heathy and happy and close by.

Celebrating old traditions and starting new ones with our family. We love to read The Jesse Tree each night in December, listen to Christmas music, sit in the living room with the lights off and just the tree on, making Christmas cookies, decorating the house, seeing my boys' faces light up with each activity. It is my favorite time of year!

I am looking forward to decorating our new breakfast bar and enjoying the family gathered around it. I didn't decorate much for Halloween because I know this wall is coming down for the bar to go in. I didn't know I would miss the decor so much. I'm also looking forward to showing off some cool albums I made this year of all of us. Thanks for hosting the giveaways!
Lynn in ND

I hope this season comes and goes as slowly as possible, beacause just after the holidays we will be saying goodbye to my husband who will be serving in the Middle East all of next year. I look forward to savoring every second of all-together family time we can get. Plus, our wedding anniversary is 2 days after Christmas, so I hope to steal some time alone with him, too.
I have to thank you, Ali. You continually inspire me. I am in the middle of a week-in-the-life album jam-packed with tons of mundance dad-details for our kids (ages 2 and 4) to pour over while he's gone. Additionally, I started my December Daily album last night, and I plan on packing it full of dadness.
Thank you!

I am looking forward to spending my first Christmas with my new husband, and getting to see my Mom. She lives almost 4000 miles away and will be coming to visit for the holidays.
Steph P

sooo looking forward to seeeeeeing the snoooooow!
isnt that wonderful??
its such a blissfilled time!

the downtime to just relax and be with family and the gift exchange- I love the look on my kid's faces!!

hmm.. i'm looking forward to all the normal stuff.. spending time with the kids and family.. a welcome break from tournaments.. and getting the house decorated.. it's a major effort that starts thanksgiving week and sometimes doesn't finish until christmas..
i'm also looking forward to working on my december album. thanks for inspiring us to work on this early ;)

This year everyone's coming to our home and I get to see all my family again :)

Oh, I love Elle's Studio stuff. I've ordered on their Etsy shop as well as on their website. Cute, cute stuff!
I'm looking forward to my whole family being together. Even though we all live in the same state and within a 2 hours drive of each other, it's still difficult to have everyone in one room.

My mother loved Christmas. She started her tree the day after thanksgiving, and tweaked it all the way up to x-mas eve. I lost her last year to cancer. I am going
to spend my holiday doing a Christmas memory scrapbook with all the wonderful stuff we did together.
It will be my opportunity to focus on those memories.

I am so excited to watch my boys (3 years and 1 year) and my niece (6 months) share their first Christmas together. Plus, my brother-in-law makes killer pigs-in-a-blanket!

I am looking forward to all of the decorations. All the pretty holiday lights just make everything seem so warm and inviting. And all of those holiday cookies of course!

For the first time, we are going to be able to spend Christmas with my granddaughters ages 4 and 1. My son is in the military and stationed overseas so we have never been with them at all during the holidays or Christmas morning, but we have been saving all year and this year we get to see their little faces light up and share the Christmas magic!

This year I am most looking forward to spending time with family. My son is a freshman in college in California, and since he plays football he won't be home for Thanksgiving..so we have to wait until Christmas! It will be nice to have him home with us!

Oh how I love Christmas and the Christmas season. I would have to say the thing that I am looking forward to the most is being able to go ice skating. I have always wanted to go to the outside ice skating rink that is here locally and maybe this is the year my whole family will go together. Thank you for the giveaway and all the daily inspiration.
xoxo-meg
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decorating the tree with the boys is my favorite part of the holiday season.