Category: Christmas

I have been looking forward to Christmas this year because it’s Dani’s first – just like I was excited over Nadia and Amelie’s first Christmas. Dani has such a giant personality and she has been over the top excited about everything!! It’s awesome. The first Christmas tree she saw was at Grandma Linda’s nursing home and she was mesmerized. A couple days after we got home from our Colorado trip I put the tree together and the lights on while the girls were having a nap. Dani was a little confused when she woke up to the tree, but she liked the lights and really got excited about the decorating.

This year the big girls chose their ornaments with Daddy while I was in New York with Dani. Here are their 2014 choices.

This is Dani’s from our China trip. She was born in the year of the Dragon so it’s fitting.

And this totally awesome and amazing ornament was thought of and created by Mike. We like to have the girls first year with us ornament represent the biggest thing that happened and this fits the bill! It turned out so awesome!

Each year we drive through Interlochen which is a local neighborhood known for their Christmas lights. This year it wasn’t as decorated as usual and we noticed lots and lots of for sale signs in front of houses. This is the house all 4 of us liked the best this year.

We also went to Prairie Lights and the displays were all new which was fun. This year there was a Groupon for the drive through, walk through and little musical of Christmas songs.  Amelie thought that was the best part and kept asking me how she could “dance and sing in front of all those people?” At the end they made it “snow” with soap bubbles and the girls really had fun with it. It was dim in there, but I still think the photo are cute.

This one made me laugh and I title it “X Files Snowman”

Back at the beginning of the year we won tickets to a show at the Greater Cleburne Carnegie Players. The prize pack included dinner at Cotton Patch and concessions so we planned to wait for their Christmas show to make the 50 mile drive down south. We had a lot of fun at dinner and then saw “The Greatest Christmas Pageant Ever” based on the book by Barbara Robinson. Amelie was once again thrilled to see people performing on stage and she has told me many, many times since then that she wants to be on stage. Both girls enjoyed the show and laughed a lot, but by the end they were really tired and ready to be home after such a late night.

This was a “Hey Mom, come look!” photo.

Amelie pretty much wore this hat for 3 days straight and did everything from eat meals to schoolwork with it on.

First off – our Christmas card.

Photo with Santa.

Singing Santa in a store.

Wearing last years Halloween costumes to church.

Costumes all around.

“Frozen” soundtrack dance party.

And as always in our house – craft time.