Getting Ready for Christmas!!

Wow! Christmas is almost here! Since December 1st, we've been busy preparing and enjoying this time together. Here are the girls sitting on Santa's lap sharing what's on their list.

A few nights later, we picked out our tree and decorated it with all of our special family ornaments.

Then we got dressed in our matching Christmas dresses to take our Christmas card picture. That was definitely an adventure!

Last weekend, the girls sang Away in A Manger at church. Then we made cookies...LOTS of cookies! The girls also decorated trees for their rooms!

Anabelle and Sadie had parties at school. Anabelle's class made gingerbread houses and Sadie made many different ornaments. Elise's class had Polar Express day and she got to wear her jammies to school! Here are the girls with their Daddy after making a beautiful gingerbread house. They keep claiming that pieces are just falling off...hmmm I think it's just too tempting!

Thanksgiving 2008

Well, since it's almost Christmas, I thought I should post some pictures from our Thanksgiving!! We travelled up to Northern Virginia to visit family and friends. On Thanksgiving, we started off with brunch at Nanna's, then dinner at Pop Pop's, and ended the day with dessert at Troy & Rachel's house. We had a great time seeing everyone and the food was delicious!! Here are a few

pictures of my little (and big) pilgirms :0). Doesn't Danny look cute!!!

I'm not sure if it was the visiting or lots of eating, but the kids crashed hard when we got home Friday. By Saturday, we were digging into our Christmas bins and decorating the house. At 4:00, I was hanging wreaths on the windows outside and I thought, "Hmmm...should it really take all day to decorate?" The kids had a great time and really enjoyed playing with our collections of Nativities!