Merry Christmas!

December 25, it is here already. Merry Christmas! The girls had fun, Andy had fun and I had fun. It was a magicial year. With great excitement and happy eyes and smiles and oh my goshes! Avery woke up and was feeling okay and excited. I was relieved. It was an awesome morning with presents and breakfast. The girls loved the stuff Santa brought and there were even a few surprises.



After breakfast we went to my parents house with my brother and his family. My grandma even dropped by for a visit. It was a great day.

Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve the house was a flurry of activity. We had our neighbours in for drinks and snacks and then we had my parents over for raclette. We were also getting the last minute stuff done for Christmas. It was a busy day. Avery was acting a little weird all day and ended up doing this while we had dinner.

She fell asleep before dinner, had a fever and I put her to bed around 7. She missed out on all the Christmas Eve festivities including her favourite dinner. I was so sad for her and was worried that Christmas would be ruined. On the other hand, Meredith was totally into everything. Her eyes were twinkling with excitement. She wrote this note for Santa, put out the cookies and sprinkled the reindeer food on the front lawn. We read Twas the Night Before Christmas and she was in bed. No wrapping for me this Christmas Eve - a first.

We Got Elved!

We had fun making this clip morning. The kids and I were laughing so hard.

December 22

I was finishing up my shopping today and I can report that I have one little gift left to buy. I always like to get a couple of things close to Christmas day - it gets me into the mood. Crazy I know but I love being out when people are excited about Christmas. What I have bought is mostly wrapped. This is impressive for me - I am always wrapping on Christmas eve - not this year. I have a list of things that still need to get done but it is definitely doable! Each year I give my parents and my grandma's a calendar with some pictures of the girls. I am just finishing up some printing tonight. The picture below is the cover. I love looking at my favourite pictures of the past year. I am going to incorporate this into a layout this year. Until tomorrow - good night!

Schools Out - Yippee!

These were the words out of Avery's mouth when I was taking this picture. She is so excited to be off school. It will be great for her to have a break.

When I went in to clean up the living room tonight this piece was sitting on the table. It is so exciting to see Avery's development in writing and attempting to sound out words without help. Look at that drawing, compared to last year it is so different and detailed. I am so impressed. Continue to be creative everyday Avery.

Cookie Decorating

Yesterday afternoon I baked sugar cookies all afternoon. It is Avery's turn to take a treat into her class and Meredith wanted some for her class too. After school they did the decorating. I think that I ended up making 5 dozen. Hope they enjoy!

Packages Tied with String

Okay so it is raffi! Two of the little boxes I made for my homemade fudge. These packages went to the office and library ladies at the school. Big thank you out to them for all they do.