The first glance.
Her princess snowglobe from Santa. "This is exactly what I wanted!"
Audrey's gift to me, a darling book called "Along Came You". The Mom in the book has brown hair, and the daughter has blonde. "Just like us," said Audrey. Dave helped her write notes and draw pictures for me in the front of the book. Audrey drew a picture of me and then said, "Whoops. Mom looks like a witch." Ha!
The kids were spoiled by our families this year (well, every year).
This picture makes me realize how quickly Audrey is growing up. When I was teaching, student teaching, and helping in classrooms when I was in college, I always loved helping the kids make Christmas gifts for their parents. I can't believe I am now getting a gift my child made me at school.
Our very dramatic response to her lovely Christmas tree ornament she made. We should be actors.
We opened our gifts from Santa, then had a big yummy breakfast. Again, I need to write down the menu. Sausage, monkey bread, fruit soup (a new delicious recipe), scrambled eggs and juice. After breakfast we opened a few presents, played for hours, took snoozes, and then went to see Alvin and the Chimpmunks, the Squeakquel with Colby & Mandy (and kids), Chris & Megan (and kids) and Clay & Amy (and kids). (Which, by the way, I felt like we had come full circle. I took Audrey to see the first Alvin and the Chipmunks when I was pregnant with Joshua 2 years ago over Christmas break. Dave had to study a ton for his boards so we could get into specialty school. Well, here we are.) We came home and had junk food for dinner, and went to bed with presents still under our tree. We opened presents for four days. Monday night the kids opened their last gift. It was a great four day Christmas.
5 comments:
Ok- Dying to know, what was the big present in the background..it's huge! Lol
Looks like Christmas was an absolute BLAST this year for you all- what a fun age the kids are at!
Also- please post the Fruit Soup recipe...what is it?
Miss ya!
-Janielle
How funny! James got the exact same train set...though now I can't remember if it was for his birthday (the 26th) or Christmas....from Grandma and Grandpa.
Glad you had a great time! :)
yes what was the big present?! audrey's face in that second picture is just about my favorite thing i've ever seen.
The big present is a swing set from my in laws. We (as in Dave) are going to set it up in the spring. I will post the recipe for fruit soup, it is delicious.
I love how you are delegating Dave to put up the swingset! (;
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