I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas

In the weeks before Christmas, Lily Kate would look out the window and tell me it wasn't Christmas yet, cause there was no snow.  I wondered how I was going to break it to her, that it hadn't snowed here on Christmas Day since 1947!

We had an amazing Christmas.  Christmas Eve we attended the Candlelight Service.  It was an adventure having both girls in the service, but they did remarkably well. Although during Silent Night Lily Kate held the candle up to her nose and said "Look, I'm Rudolph!" The church had battery operated candles for the children since last year someone's hair caught on fire.

One of our family traditions is to open one gift on Christmas Eve (often it's Christmas PJs, Lily Kate still fit in hers from last year, so she chose the tiniest package under the tree.)

Opening up her Christmas Eve present- Disney Princess silly bands from Unca & Rachie!

Christmas morning in their matching pjs

Aubrey's First Christmas- she slept in until 10:30!

Lily Kate LOVES her new doll house.  She played with it for hours!

When we opened our stockings, Lily Kate sat there with her unopened stocking and said "It's just what I wanted!"

Christmas night it started snowing and it didn't stop until the next afternoon!  Lily Kate got her wish of a white Christmas.  She really enjoyed the snow.

The snow was very packable...we made a snow cat.

Paartay!

We had a Saturday full of Christmas parties.  The first was with our playgroup friends at the Zello's home.  Lily Kate and Aubrey really enjoyed themselves.  Here they are all dolled up for the evening.

Lily Kate was excited that they had matching shoes :)

After the family Christmas party, I came home...got gussied up and drove to the hospital to pick Stephen up.  He was on call but got to leave the hospital to attend the party.  We had a great time (but I forgot my camera).  After dinner and dancing I took my date back to the hospital before he turned into a pumpkin at the strike of midnight.

The Little Lord Jesus Asleep on the Hay

Feeding Baby Jesus a bottle

*it is the Baby Jesus from our nativity.

Christmas Carols

I'm participating in Community Bible Study this year and we are studying the book of Luke.  I absolutely love it and Lily Kate loves the children's program.  She soaks up the lessons each week and enjoys learning different Bible verses.  This week the children got to sing for us before we had our lecture.

She decided to help direct

Here is our crazy little one:

*Note: She was an entertainer...but also ready for it to be finished so she could go" give Mommy and JaJa a kiss"

Christmas Crafts

Today we visited Small Hands, Big Art for a fun filled hour of crafts.  Lily Kate made some beautiful artwork and especially loved painting and glittering everything!

Playing with homemade playdoh

Decorating a contact paper Christmas ornament

Aubrey came too and I was so nervous about how I would handle both kids.  God was looking out for me, Aubrey napped the entire time!

The finished projects: A Christmas ornament, Christmas tree, Cool colors foil collage/painting.