Christmas Pictures

The girls with Nonee and Papa

Little girls' dream house

Ellie and Ava's "playhouse" from Nonee and Papa

Christmas with my family

Visiting with friends

Nana reading to the grandkids

Christmas Eve

silly sisters

What did Santa bring??


We had a great Christmas with family and friends! I had a hard time deciding on which pictures to post. I had several good ones. Ellie was incredibly worried about Santa coming in to her house, so she slept with Jeff and me. She also made me move the stockings into the living room because they were at the end of the hall!! :-) She had so much fun making cookies for Santa and leaving water, carrots, and sprinkling oats and glitter for the reindeer to know which house was hers. Ava was clueless, but had fun opening gifts. Santa brought them some books and a talking disney nursery and we gave them babydolls (Ellie a doll dressed as MinnieMouse and Ava got a Lucy baby!!), and we got them a wiggle racer - really cool, but it didn't have all the parts, so we have to call about it. The list goes on and on - we are incredibly blessed and were reminded of our blessings while spending time with family, which I think is always the best part of celebrating Christmas!! Jeff's family did a great job of providing "entertainment" during our get together and the kids were really involved. We're still trying to figure out what kind of family traditions we are going to have within our family of 4. One thing we did this year was fixed a big meal of breakfast food the night before Santa came, but we want to have more "traditions", so I'll be thinking of ideas throughout the year.

Hope you had a great Christmas and that you remembered the reason for the season!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!