Glowing Beauty

Another Christmas Celebration

Look at all the children!  Lots of cousin love goin' on!

My mom, sister and niece practiced Silent Night together and let's just say, it was a job well done!

Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus

Lucy

Will

Ada- no thank you!

Henry
Elena

Emma

Abby
Tyler and Conner

Christmas morning

Geeze la weeze (is that how you write it, I don't think I ever have before).  I'm having the darndist time keeping up on this blog, maybe we've entered a new phase of life here with 1 walker (Henry's still content with crawling) and 2 curious 1 year olds.   Not to mention Ada.   In the last week she has downed half a glass of wine (yes, she was a little tipsy), and half a bottle of children's Tylenol that I failed to close all the way to the "click".  Anyway, we've been busy and I'm behind on the blog, but I'm actually caught up on the laundry (folded and put away 9 loads yesterday!), which is a miracle and makes my insides happy knowing my kids now have clean socks so we don't have to search through the dirty clothes for decently clean pair.  I also came up with a new shoe organizing system that I am feeling quite optimistic about that might help avoid the morning scramble to find shoes... oh I hope so!  Well, I've gotten distracted now and forgotten what I'm posting for, oh yes, Christmas!  We had a wonderful Christmas.  We spent the morning with Maz and Papa and then we headed over to the cousins up here.  And then a week later we went down south and celebrated with my side of the family.  I love the compressed cousin chaos.  I'll post some pictures from our time down south soon, but for now, here are some from Christmas morning.



This is Will talking to Santa on Christmas Eve, I like this picture.

I bought Will some new pjs, but before we went to bed he asked, "would it be ok if I wear the Star Wars pjs that grandma got me instead?"  I mean, how can you beat Star Wars?

This girl has just got her own look, her own personality and I am actually quite perplexed at who she looks like. She's such a petite little gymnast, intrigued by this one...








Oh yes, and did I mention, she knows what she likes and what she doesn't like.

Twins?

You would never know... but they're still cute together.

Christmas Show

               Lucy was in a Christmas ice skating show with her cousin Emma. Good job girls!

The joy of completion!

All decorated!

We finally got our tree!  I felt like we needed to get it because I wasn't quite convinced it was Christmas yet, it just came so darn fast this year for some reason.  So, it was especially important to have the decorations up so I could start feeling the Christmas vibe.






Ada wanted to wear the Easter bunny hat, sure, why not?




The "after", I love it!  The first night we had it all up Nate and I slept on the couch.  Now on to the Christmas shopping.  I'm doing ok on that.  Can't figure out what to get the twins, so if anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear it.  We don't need any toys and the older kids will be very upset if for some reason M & H were forgotten.  What to do?  What to do?