Friday, December 23, 2011

Merry Christmas!

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Did you get our Christmas card? No? Oh, right. I didn't send any. This is the picture that was going to be on them. Pretend it's a card.

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This season has obviously been a chaotic one. I mean, Christmas is always crazy, but add selling your house and moving across the country with a one and two-year-old in tow, and you get a whole lot of chaos. And boxes. Lots of boxes.

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We've been visited this year by the Elf on the Shelf. Maddie named him Christmas, and every day (even on days when he's tricky and eats her yogurt covered raisins), she tells him what she wants for Christmas. It's the same things every day - a necklace like Dora has. I hope Santa gets the message.

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We didn't have a lot of Christmas wrapping paper, and so we made our own. If anyone gets a package wrapped in a two-year-old, I'd like her back, please.

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The kids both spent some quality time reading their Christmas books while I frantically packed. Gavin was very into the snowman book and Maddie loved the Fancy Nancy Christmas story.

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We didn't do much decorating (imagine that), but we did set up the kids' nativity set. It looks like a nativity massacre in this picture, but Maddie was just putting them all to night night.

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And to kick off the holiday weekend, Dakota made us all yummy hot chocolate with marshmallows.

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The kids loved it...

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...as evidenced by Gavin's marshmallow goatee...

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...Maddie's smile...

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..and that. Yeah.

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So even though there's no tree, there's still some magic in the air and a lot to be in awe of.

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Merry Christmas, everyone.

3 comments:

  1. Cutest pictures ever! I love them.

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  2. Merry Christmas, hope your Christmas and the big move go well! Enjoy! Kellie

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  3. Merry Christmas to you guys. Quite a treat to see these pictures!

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