Christmas Morning

We had a fun Christmas! I'm a little overwhelmed by all the pictures, but here are a few...

The girl's big present from Santa were American Girl dolls. Ashley got a "Just Like Me" doll and Paige got a "Bitty Baby." They LOVE them! They each got a special backpack to carry their dolls and some really cute clothes, and they've taken them everywhere. I'm so happy they like the dolls so much!

Big Mike and Little Mike:

I found these cute matching jammies--the boy version has little blue gingerbread boys and the girl version has pink gingerbread girls--I love them!

James' Birthday

James finally caught up to me! He turned 29 the day we flew out here. Here we are at about 11 pm after traveling 12 hours...Happy Birthday, James!

Birthday Boy

Michael turned one today! We had a fun day with both sets of grandparents, my sister and brother-in-law, and my aunt. Everyone came over and we had a little party with cake and ice cream and presents. Michael loved everyone singing at him, but he was pretty mad that the delicious ice cream was so cold.

He had a great time playing baseball!

Christmas goes Country

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Getting Ready for Christmas

We've been getting all ready for Christmas here! Last week, we decorated a gingerbread house, made reindeer out of hand and foot prints, made birdseed ornaments for our trees outside, and found the smallest tree we could for the girls' room. Next week, we're going to make ornaments out of pipe cleaners and beads, do Christmas paintings, decorate pinecones with paint, glitter, and fake snow, decorate cookies, and make some kind of felt Christmas activity. Here are the pics from last week:

The birdseed ornaments:

We glued googly eyes and red-painted cotton balls on these--here's Michael's:

The smallest tree we could find--they loved it!
We also found the smallest ornaments--Michael thought they were delicious!