Thanks

Christmas was AWESOME this year!! I love it even more now that the kids are getting bigger. It seems so much more magical. We read a lot of Christmas stories. We made gingerbread houses. We went sledding. We drank a lot of hot chocolate smothered in whipped cream. We also had a special elf come and leave us little reminder presents.

Mark and Laura came for Thanksgiving and they knew how much we wanted a tree for ALL of December. Just before they headed back, they brought this beauty over. Our house instantly smelled like Christmas. Thanks you guys!!!

I even tried to make my first clay baked nativity set. It got shipped off to a special family.


Then we went to Grandma and Grandpa's house for a couple of days. It was fun to play with cousins, eat yummy food, and take a lot of naps snuggled next to Elijah. Thanks mom and dad for letting us come.

We made some snowmen and waited patiently for Jace to arrive.

Marley wanted her own snowman. I told her that we should build it next to our other snowman. She said, "No mom, I don't want her to get tackled."

(poor thing is stuck in between two boys)

So we built it far away under a tree.

Christmas night was fun. We had the most hilarious nativity story acted out, angels and all. Mary (Marley) wouldn't hold the baby (Anabelle) and the baby would lay in the manger. The wise man looked like he just got out of the shower, and dad zoomed through Luke 2 all while we were laughing.



























I think I was more excited for Santa to come than my kids were.

On Christmas day, we went sledding. Thanks grandma and gramps for the sleds.