Christmas 09

We've had a great Christmas! Christmas Eve, Claire's choir sang for the family service at our church. After that, we headed back to our house and Eric's family joined us for dinner and presents. The girls loved spending time with their cousins Liah and Cedar. All their gifts were a big hit and then they ate their fill of all the Christmas cookies we baked. We also followed Santa's path on NORAD all afternoon and evening. Christmas morning came and Santa indeed found our house. The wrapping paper flew. After we made breakfast, we got cleaned up and headed over to my parent's house for the next round... Here are some pictures from church and my family's Christmas. (I'll try to post some video of Christmas morning later after I have a chance to go through it.)

At church on Christmas Eve. (Claire was warming up with her choir)

Christmas morning

With part of my family

Preschool Christmas parties

This past Wednesday, I party hopped at preschool to attend part of both Elise and Chloe's holiday festivities. They both enjoyed snacks, holiday games, and a gift exchange. Here's a couple of pictures:

Elise's gift exchange

Elise decorating cookies

Chloe's gift exchange

Chloe's snack time

Gingerbread Houses

Click on the link below to go to my friend Nikki's blog and see some pictures of our Christmas craft day at their house. The kids had a lot of fun! Great pictures, Nikki!

Gingerbread house post

Cookie craziness

We baked Christmas cookies over 3 different days this year! The girls really had a blast mixing, baking and decorating all the different types of cookies. They even got their cousins Liah and Cedar in on the sugar cookie decorating day. Although I was so busy icing and getting people more cookies/sprinkles/etc. that I forgot to take any pictures of that! But here are pictures from the other 2 days:

Breakfast with Santa

We took the girls to Breakfast with Santa at our church. They enjoyed all the arts and crafts activities and the pancake breakfast. They were even tolerably good about posing with Santa. No one was scared this year! Athough there are so many of them that poor Santa is almost invisible in the picture- LOL!