Merry Christmas, everyone! We are having a wonderful
Christmas day, and we hope you are too. We will soon
have pictures of our celebration to share but for now here
are a few more seasonal shots…
Last weekend we went to St. Augustine to see
a beautiful display of holiday lights.
Star built an Olaf for Lauren!
Lauren has been keeping track of how many days
until Christmas with this cute Santa she made at school.
xo
I love our family tradition of Christmas LEGOS…(Thanks for starting this, Grandma Devanie)…
I love that it is an activity that Shaw loved for years and Lauren will love for years.
I love to see them working together: him teaching, her learning, both of them enjoying.
Hi everyone! We hope you are enjoying the holiday season as
much as we are. Here are some pictures from the past week…
Cupcakes for sharing…
Singing along at the Melrose Elementary Winter Music Show…
Enjoying some of our seasonal décor…
…and taking a break from the activities.
One more non-Christmas picture, just because I adore it…
We welcomed Star back home on December first. She
arrived with the mail, with our address pinned to her
dress. She has been a delightful visitor ever since she arrived!
This is what she looks like when she’s thinking about
her next adventure.
The night before Lauren’s birthday party with her
classmates, Star got into the party favors! Then she fell
into an exhausted heap onto Olaf the piñata.
On this day, she was just hanging out, watching what
was happening in the neighborhood.
Oh, Star! Another cupcake?
Sitting under the tree, coloring in one of Lauren’s
holiday activity books.
It has been a busy month around here, so even though we have
been preparing for Christmas and I have been photographing
our preparations, I just now have time to share what we’ve been up
to with you all. I have been disappointed the past few Decembers
because I am not able to follow through on as many holiday
traditions with Lauren as I was with Shaw, but the combination of
an every other week schedule and a time consuming winter sport
(soccer three nights per week…although we DO love every minute of it)
lessen the time we have to watch ALL the Christmas movies and read
ALL the Christmas books. The bottom line is that we just have to make
the MOST of every minute we have.
Hot chocolate, complete with whipped cream,
marshmallows and sprinkles, is a favorite evening
treat this time of year.
I have learned various ways to capture the beauty of
our tree lights.
I have also learned how to ‘stage’ ornaments and other
items.
We are carrying on the LEGO advent tradition
(Shaw received one many Christmases in a row)
with Lauren. There is actually a version for girls
now…LEGO Friends.
Bailey was quite content to lay in front of
the tree…even long enough for me to snap
a few pictures.
Then later in the night, Lauren plopped down in
almost the same spot to listen to ‘Twas the Night
Before Christmas, recorded for her by Auntie Kim,
Thomas and Macey two Christmas seasons ago.
Lauren and Elsa in matching holiday jammies.
We hope you are enjoying however you are choosing to
celebrate this beautiful time of year. xoxo
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