Christmas

 Laying out cookies for Santa and carrots for the reindeer.

(FYI... Mimi got us these fabulous dresses.)

 Christmas morning in Mommy and Daddy's room begging to go downstairs and see if Santa was here. (Notice the dress is still in).

 "Let's go! Let's go!"

 Drums!

 How did Santa know we love dress up? And especially shoes??

Oooh...fancy mama!

 More instruments to go with the drums.

 A sheep blanket and pillow from Grandma and Grandpa!

 Silly Pop Pop. That's my car pillow!

 Of course Miles and Charlie were right there in the action.

 Good thing they had stockings too.

 Princess socks!!!

 Testing out the new toys.

 Getting our hands painted

 to leave our handprints on the tree skirt.

 The first of many years to come. :)

 Coloring with mimi.

 Riding with Pop Pop.

Another great visit! Thanks for spending Christmas with us!

Guess Who?

Can you guess where we found Jingle this morning? Ok I'll tell you. He was under the tree reading Twas the Night Before Christmas to some of our stuffed buddies!

Jingle Update

 So the other day we found him sitting in our Christmas tree with a trumpet ornament in hand as if he was getting ready to play us a tune.

And this morning we found him in our pantry....drinking syrup from a straw! Where is that silly elf going to end up next???

Posing under the Christmas tree (Take 3)

About as good as it gets.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

We finally got around to putting up the tree. I say finally because I have been begging Mom since Thanksgiving. So excited!!!

Santa Train

We went up to Georgetown to visit Santa and ride a train! Although I was so excited to see Santa, once we were actually there I was a little scared (until he'd leave and then I'd want to see him again.) Teah was definitely unsure of the bearded man.

 Our friends Jay and Jard and their kids got to go with us.

" Not so sure about this Mom. Please don't let go."

 Check out the view.

 And there was a really cute conductor man that came around and punched everyone's tickets---just like in the Polar Express.

 Mason loves Teah.

 A few more mountain pics.

Jingle

 So you've probably heard about the Elf on the Shelf (You can find them just about anywhere these days.) Well, the other night, ours showed up at our front door. Mommy read the story about how he is Santa's helper and that each night he flies back to the North Pole and reports to Santa how we've been behaving. Then he comes back and hides in a new spot every morning for us to find him. I wasn't so sure about this guy at first (we call him Jingle). I was afraid he was going to be flying around my room in the middle of the night. But Daddy told me to tell Jingle not to fly around my room and I'm pretty sure he listened. At least so far. The first morning Teah found him sitting on our fuzzy jar.

And this morning...he was taking a marshmallow bath in the sink. What a sense of humor that Jingle has. Looking forward to seeing where he'll land next. Stay tuned.