Fashion Show, Part I

Quick fashion show from the babes. There will be more to come - they could only handle one costume change (and actually Griff was bored after just a couple of pictures!). They all got some really cute clothes for Christmas, and of course a big THANK YOU to Aunt Nancy and Uncle Don for the LOVELY dresses for Abby and Hannah. They LOVE them! And they are so fun to twirl in :-)

Merry Christmas

(there are a couple of new posts below if you haven't already seen pictures from Christmas Eve)

We had a lovely Christmas Day. Abby got us up at precisely 6am, which was the earliest we told her she could come into our room to get us. She wondered to the side of my bed at 5:59am and quickly told me her clock said it was 6! Apparently she had been up since 5 reading :-)

Of course Hannah and Griff were in a sleeping mood and couldn't be bothered to wake up. We let Abby open her stocking gifts and one other one (Moxy Doll - thanks G&G Meiers!) before waking H&G up at 7am.

There were lots of giggles of delight when opening gifts, and everyone was super excited with all they received. Santa came through and got Hannah the "black" horse she had been talking about for weeks; Abby got her Fur-Real Cat; and Griff got (one of many!) a remote control tractor.

Thank you all for the wonderful gifts. We are extremely blessed to have so many people who care about and remember us during the Christmas season. We hope your Christmas was as wonderful as ours.

Enjoy the pictures!

Christmas Eve

Santa was busy Christmas Eve! Merry Christmas to you all.

I wish for presents!
Abby reading her note to Santa, which she left by the cookies....

Abby's Cherub Choir

Abby sang with the Cherub Choir at church last night. There were over a 100 kids singing and they sounded great. Below are a couple of pictures before Abby left (she's being a reindeer in one of them), and then one of all of us when we got home from Mass.

The Christmas Blizzard

We got a fair amount of snow last night (6 inches or so) and more is expected tonight. Hope Santa can make it through all this snow! It's actually quite warm outside (relatively speaking), so we took everyone out this morning for some fun.

Abby is singing at Christmas Eve Mass this afternoon. She needs to be there by 3pm. Since Griff and Hannah will (hopefully) still be napping then, I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to get our traditional picture of all of us before Mass. It might have to be an after Mass picture this year!

I promised the kids they could have whatever they wanted for dinner tonight - all of them said that they wanted mac-n-cheese. I almost feel guilty for letting them have it, but I'm getting over it! Quick and easy dinner tonight b/c tomorrow night we are having yummy beef tenderloin.

Enjoy the snow pictures. Christmas pictures tomorrow!

And a picture of all the snow coming down last night.....