Christmas 2011
This Christmas was going to weigh heavy on our hearts, as this was the first holiday away from our families. Tim and I had to stay home this Christmas due to a few factors that were out of our control. We have always spent the time with our families - traveling from my parents house to his parents house. We had come to expect the chaos that surrounded Christmas.This year really allowed us time to "enjoy" the holiday as just a family of 4. Tim and I have shared many stories of the Christmas traditions we had as children - and how we would like to recreate those traditions with our girls. We cooked, baked, read, sang, danced and laughed! The girls had so much fun decorating cookies and wrapping each others presents. They made Reindeer dust and wrote letters to Santa. And on Christmas morning their faces lit up when they saw that Santa had been to their house! We were able to leisurely unwrap presents in our PJ's, and the girls were able to play with their new toys as long as they wanted.
Even though we dearly missed our families, we had a wonderful weekend - I couldn't have asked for anything more. This truly is a magical time of year!
The 'after church' family pic
Izzy wanted to write Santa -hopefully Santa ate the cookies and not Samta
(it was too cute - I couldn't resist sharing this pic)
Obviously Santa (and the Grandparents) knew our address
Opening presents
A horse...who would have thought
My sweet girls with their Groovy Girl Dolls...and I leave you with the Xmas Jam Session
(Santa brought Izzy a guitar and Sophia a microphone)
Merry Christmas!!!
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