The Official Countdown Now Begins (even though I've been counting down since July)

The unwritten rule in our house is no decorating for Christmas until after Thanksgiving. Ryan thinks that if I had a choice, I would just skip Thanksgiving and go into Christmas right after Halloween. Give me a break. I grew up in Canada, our Thanksgiving is the second week of October, so my mom always started decorating for Christmas the day after Halloween. Since we moved right after Christmas last year and 2 guys packed up all my Christmas in boxes, we are still trying to find most of our Christmas decorations. We finally found our Christmas tree stand this morning, so we hope to have that decorated by Monday. Anyway, since I have no awesome decoration pictures to show, here is my favorite scene from the movie "Elf". I almost felt the same level of excitement yesterday when we were at the mall and we saw that Santa was there. PS: I love "Smiling's my favorite."