Christmas is over...boo, sad!! But, we, once again, had a fabulous Christmas this year. Let's start with the pictures and commentary, shall we?
Keeping with tradition... we made our Happy Birthday Jesus Birthday Cake...
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| All smiles...the older she gets the more of this she can actually do all by herself. That's pretty cool. |
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| She has never had a problem figuring out how to do this... :) |
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| Adding sprinkles/candy... I literally emptied the cabinets with whatever leftover candy we had and let her have at it. |
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| All done... I love that we do this every year...helps her remember the true meaning. |
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| Later that day, it was off to Mass with my mom, then to her house for our Christmas Eve celebration. This coat that Elaina is wearing is a hand me down from my my sis, Abby. I LOVE it. |
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| After dinner conversation. |
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| Our friends, Carl and Sabrina joined us again this year for Christmas Eve....They supplied the craft activity. We decorated gingerbread houses... there were 3 teams. Alexandra and Elaina picked the Hello Kitty gingerbread house - appropriate. Erik landed on that team |
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| The 3 pre-teen and teen aged boys were on a team. Of all the people there, I thought they would be the least interested...turns out they were the most into it. |
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| Kate and her boyfriend, Tom |
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| My mom made a Christmas tree out of a sugar cone - super cute |
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| The boys crafted a chimney out of the sugar cone...very inventive. See, I told you they were into it |
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| The 3 finished products... the winner - Hello Kitty (of course) |
Next, we opened presents... always a good time.
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| Elaina helped Poppy Gale open his presents. |
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| She got Hullabaloo - a super fun game.... |
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| ....and some more Hello Kitty loot! |
A good time was had by all..... We hurried home to get to bed... Santa came. More on that later :)
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