The lead-up to Christmas...

Twas the week before Christmas and all through he house you could hear Carols and kids who have had too much advent calendar chocolate...

We went looking at Christmas lights a few days before Christmas. Managed to get a couple of photos of the kids! Not exactly the best lighting conditions! LOL

The kids had HEAPS of fun as we were driving around. We were expecting them to get tired and possibly even for Phillip to fall asleep, butit got to 10:30pm and they were BOTH going strong! We had to call it a night because Matt and I were getting tired! LOL

And then there's the traditions of watching Carols By Candlelight on TV. I love this time of year - snuggle up on the lounge eating popcorn and shortbread while watching actors sing Christmas Carols badly (with the occasional "real" singer making it more bearable!)

So as not to overload poor blogger with too many photos (they really should work on the way photo uploading works in blogger - it's REALLY bad), I'll follow this post with our actual Christmas celebrations.

How do you celebrate in the lead-up to Christmas? Do you have any family traditions? Having a young family it's fun watching the traditions gradually develop and it'd be great to have some ideas of what others do...