Merry Christmas!

I hope you all have the Happiest Christmas and a Merry New Year!

I thought it was about time I showed you all the picture that was the finalist for the Christmas Card.
You know, it was photoshoot attempt #2. SOMEONE was not happy and refused to smile. But we also managed to get these gems.

Wrappin' It Up!

Well, the pictures I showed you last week about our Holiday Activities pretty much covered about the first week of December! It took me this long to edit/resave all the photos from the rest of the month. Get comfy! Here is how we finished up the rest of our December Days.

A few decorations around the house.

 Gingerbread cookies and decorating thanks to DaddyO!

A special night out. First dinner....... 

 then tons of Christmas lights...

 And a carriage ride!

 We didn't have to wait in line AT ALL, so there was no time to explain to Daisy what was about to happen. We all piled in to the carriage and headed on our way, only to have The Little Miss start screaming at the top of her very frightened lungs! I was terrified that she was going to spook the horse! We eventually calmed her down and we all enjoyed the rest of our ride!!

A Christmas Eve bike ride to the park. Yep, a few

of those cuties are wearing short sleeves!

Christmas Eve tradition: open 1 present.

 Lily knew the drill, Daisy was oblivious, but the boys were PISSED that I got to pick the present. Only the package with sleepy eyes on the gift tag! New Jammies!

The older kids woke us up at 7:30am Christmas morning. Not too bad! We had to wake-up Miss Daisy.

Lily got a new bike!

 Even though he said he didn't like "Justin Biever," Ashton

hasn't stopped listening to him on his new mp3 player!

 Bailey, pretty much, hasn't removed the headphones from his ears or the robe from his body since Christmas Day!

 Daisy got her new kitchen that she practiced asking Santa for but when it came time to actually ask him, she covered her eyes with her hands and wouldn't say a word! LOL

And that is the end!

Oh Christmas Tree

Just a different way to capture The Tree.

Instructions here.

Just a Few Things.........................

We've Been Up To, So Far This Month.

I've been trying to take pictures of  toddlers!

I've been hand-making teacher gifts!

 I found instructions here.

We attended a fun little parade that was JUST outside our subdivision. We left the house 10 minutes before it started, parked the car, and grabbed a perfect piece of curb just in time for the parade to start!

 The kids said it was better than Halloween because all they had to do was sit their and people brought candy to them. One group was even handing out stuffed animals!

I've been forcing the kids to watch Holiday movies. I used to LOVE watching all the Christmas movies but they just whine, "We've already seen this!"