Christmas!

We came limping in to Christmas this year. At least we put all of the decorations up WAY early (my neighbor told me  " I KNEW you were an October decorator!") We've learned that if we don't do stuff when we have 5 minutes to do it, it never gets done. The house had not one but three fully decorated trees and one, empty tree upstairs with a few random things hung on it. Blake just kept finding trees and putting them up!  We had stockings,not monogrammed  but at least they were there, and even garland on the banister. Wow- look at us!

The Sansom family headed over to our house to celebrate again this year because we were asked to light the Christ Candle in the advent wreath this year and Emmy had her Christmas Choir program at the Christmas Eve service. We had to be there early so we didn't even take a family picture. Here's one of my unsmiling angel in her Christmas program and one of the dapper B.

Emmy is all about singing and dancing now, and we've listened to the CD of the choir musical, oh about 7,000 times and Emmy dances and sings to all of it. Well, it turns out that B was watching! During the musical, he stood on Pops lap and did all of the motions to the songs. The people behind us were cracking up and he thought he was hilarious!! He surprises us everyday with the things that he knows. Emmy did a great job singing (or at least doing the hand motions) Away in a Manger and we didn't light the church on fire so I call it a success!

After we were finished at church, we headed home for some eating and present opening! We went traditional this year and cooked. Felt kind of weird since we haven't done it in a long time! As usual there were WAY too many gifts. Clara wasn't really sure what to think and Beckett was happy with the first thing he opened and didn't really care about anything else. Emmy, as usual, wanted to organize and hand gifts out to everyone. She had more fun doing that than anything else.

The most exciting part about Santa for Beckett was, of course, fruit snacks. That's right. Not toys, or cars, or the giant soccer goal, fruit snacks. Emmy was SO excited to get her Tiana doll. She has wanted her for a long time. We're ALMOST finished with the entire collection.