We're gearing up for Michael's travel to increase and our home preschool "take 2". We had a perfect Christmas. Michael had almost two full weeks off of work. We were healthy, happy, rested and together. We finished our Advent Activity Calendar mentioned before with a sleigh ride and visit to "Santa's House", Christmas cookie baking, a video from Santa and lots of Christmas movies.
Not a good picture of the fam with Santa to say the least, but shows Callie's complete fear of him. She refused to take her eyes off of him, almost taunting,
"Go ahead and try something. I have a blood curdling scream ready."
Christmas Eve is always my favorite. We start the day with brunch with Michael's family at our house and then nothing but lounging and playing with new presents until our Christmas Eve service. This year, Ailey was too old for the nursery and attended "big church" with us. She was skeptical, as were we, but I knew she'd love the candlelight singing at the end. Other than twice announcing, "what's next", during a silence, she did pretty well and did indeed love the candlelit songs, and much to our surprise did NOT try to grab the candle out of our hands. For the second year in a row, rain has squashed our tradition to walk down Main St and look at Christmas lights, but the girls were famished after church anyway. Shown here downing a bowl of blueberries while waiting for our Christmas tree shaped pizza to bake (a new Cmas Eve tradition we started).
We snuggled and read books before setting out cookies for Santa and calling it a night! The girls got bikes, baby dolls, books and tons of other fun games and toys. Below Callie is playing with Ailey's singing Elsa doll. From now on Santa will be instructed to buy the girls the same gifts; same color, size, shape etc., Poor Elsa has been fought over and spent more time in timeout than she has being played with.
I am so blessed! 2014 was a year for the record books for our family! Excited for 2015 and next Christmas with THREE kiddos! :)
