Daphne got to meet Santa in person for the first time. She was nervous but eager, having written him several "letters" before the month had really even started. When Lily tried to help her visit him, she said, "No. I do it myself." And she did even though she was scared.
Three cheers for Lucas, the man who makes Christmas especially magical for our family.
So funny the first snow wasn't until something like December 6th and then BOOM!!! But anyway, the first snow was a whiz bang time for Daphne. She took to hopping all over in it and laughing, refusing to come in until she was absolutely wet and frozen.
I got Christmas present ideas for Daphne which involved dolls for a dollhouse Grandma Laura had purchased Lily a few years ago, but that meant I had the urge to paint and roof the dollhouse. Fun, intense, but it now gets played with more and is super cute...and maybe I will paint my home just like it some day...maybe.
This year's gingerbread house was a homemade kit that the bishop/bishop's wife delivered for our kids, especially Ben, because he wanted to give the bishop something SO BAD, but the bishop has a lot of allergies and is a type 1 diabetic, so I said NO FOOD. We ended up making a pillow to deliver. Then the bishop's MIL passed away, and so the pillow appliqued with the word LOVE ended up being a sweet thing for a 7-year-old to think about. The kids did pretty great with a little help from Dad, but they always gross me out when for the next several weeks they ask if they can eat it. Just seems so unsanitary. NO!!!
My little architect, Shawn, checking out the instructions!!! He continues to build more and more complex train tracks and thinks about being a builder or a firefighter when he grows up.
Daphne was so into Christmas this year it was very fun. She and Shawn enthusiastically cut and decorated cookies for Santa with me.
Ben's super cute reindeer that his gift to Mom and Dad came in.
The stockings weren't hung by the chimney with care, but they got filled to the brim with tooth-rotting delights!
It was SO NICE to have Aunt Ja here again this year. We were very lucky...sorry Tooele clan, but we had a lot of fun with her. She is missed by all of us when she gets to be somewhere else.
It was a great holiday season...extended by all the snow days, and I am so thankful that Our Savior was born and for all I can learn from that event and His life and Atonement. Merry Christmas in January!
To make it through this slightly dreadful month (until B's birthday this weekend), I am keeping up the Christmas cards/letters.
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