Christmas 2011

This year was so much fun, Charlotte and Timothy were both so excited for Christmas and we had a blast with them.  We actually had a decent night's sleep on Christmas Eve and out of the 8 adults and one teenager (still scary to think that about Tyler) that were at my parents' house Christmas morning, it was Timothy and Charlotte and Caroline that were still sleeping and had to be woken up to go open presents!  Timothy was super excited but it took Charlotte a little longer to wake up.  Once she did though, every present was a huge deal and she was so excited.  Caroline played a bit and snuggled a bit, the first Christmas is always sweet but tiring, she only wanted to be held so we were thankful to have plenty of aunts and uncles and Tyler and Grammy around to help out!  We're excited to celebrate New Year's Eve this year with our Young Adults group at church and hoping the new year brings us more opportunities to bless those around us. 

Rolling out cookie dough to make Christmas cookies, such concentration!

Decorating the cookies...I think he went through a whole tube of frosting and a whole thing of sprinkles on just one cookie...Santa needed some help eating all of that sugar!

Leaving cookies by the fireplace for Santa

And leaving reindeer food on the lawn for the reindeer

One last picture before bedtime :)

All of the "kids" posing on the stairs before opening presents, we wait there while Grammy and Grumpy go "check" and make sure Santa came :)

Charlotte playing with her legos ("wegos") in her princess tent

Caroline pushing around her new walker

And Timothy having a bounce on his trampoline, he told me wanted to ask Santa for a trampoline so we had to have a talk about how Santa knew we didn't have a yard big enough for an outdoor trampoline and Timothy said that a little on to jump on inside would be OK...thank goodness :)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!!