Merry Christmas

 

Happy Christmas morning.  Welcome to our mayhem.

Our Christmas Tree, half the lights burned out Christmas morning.

A little Christmas morning bed head.

Properly tamed.

Eliza finished Santa's cookies.

 

Adam was happy to receive a whole pack of gum, which he promptly chewed.

Grace unwrapping her gift from her Dad.

Now that is some eyebrow skill.

 

Merry with new roller blades, she some how broke an axle on her roller skates.

 

We encourage sibling rivalry.

Just in case you were wondering, an assembled table will fit in the back of a mini van, but will not fit through the front door.  So it was on the front porch on Christmas morning until we could take the rods off.

Christmas Card

Elf vs. Eliza

 Remember Eliza and the Elf last year.

 

Look how big she is now. 

Still a little creepy elf.

 

Oh look, Eliza is a ventriloquist.

 

Eliza trying to take the elf's hat off.

Eliza can free stand and take one step.

She is pretty excited about this.

What a good helper she was during the wrapping frenzy.

Cookie Making

Sugar Cookies for Santa.

 Grace making the prerequisite sugar cookies.

 

All product must be tested before Santa consumption.

 Jacob showing off the cookies.

I made a gingerbread family complete with a red-headed step child.

Santa visits early.

 Marvin our elf dropped by some gifts from Santa a few days early.

He had a note that said that Santa did not want them to suffocate in his bag.

 Meet Snowflake

 

and Ms. M. 

Perhaps you are wondering why Merry has a band-aid on her eyebrow.  One word, Adam.

One of Eliza's birthday gifts may have got thrown strategically at her forehead.  Thank goodness for super glue.

 

I am not sure how Harbor feels about the new additions.

He is not really our dog.  He adopted us around Halloween, we still have not found his real family.

 

 I think it is possible they might be loved to death.

Happy birthday Eliza!!!!!

 

It is hard to believe my baby is already one. 

Look how big she is in her little bassinet.

 For her birthday Mom, Dad and Adam took her to the Dade City Zoo.

 She is much too busy to cuddle now.

 Time for cake!

 Please let me go Dad.

 I am going to get it.

 

Delicious.

 

 Adam picked a helicopter for her, I am pretty sure he wants her to share it with him.

 Her new favorite thing is looking at books.

Grace cuddling with Eliza.

Merry's dance

Merry and Grace's dance studio had their Christmas Dance performance.  

Merry put together this lovely ensemble for the program.

This is another of Ms. Sally's treasures.

Grace changed before I got a picture of her.

Merry danced to the Charlie Brown Christmas Song and Grace danced to Rudolf the Red-nose reindeer.

Merry also had an acrobat performance as well.