Christmas Morning

In looking back over our pictures from Christmas morning, we realized we didn't take many pictures of the girls opening presents. I think Joey and I were having too much fun helping the girls open their presents. Maybe next year we'll hire a photographer. :)


Carlysle opening her Zhu Zhu pets. It's the only thing she really wanted and talked about for months. And it saves us from having real hamsters. Still waiting for someone to invent a full size toy dog. One that can live in the backyard, run around and play with the kids and be a good guard dog but not require food/water and not urinate or poo all over the yard. Also, a cat with the same previously named wanted/unwanted functions would be equally cool.




She likes candy......a lot.







The next few pictures just make me giggle....if you know Callie you will too.
Notice a theme?













The girl likes to eat......but come on you don't get a belly like that just sittin around.

Cookies for Santa

As the pictures below will show.....I really get into "the making cookies for Santa" process. The problem with this is that before we started.....I googled "Christmas Cookies". You know, just to get some cute ideas for our cookies.

Well, here is what you get when you do that.......

Which would be fine if I didn't then decide that they have to look like the above examples. And when you are decorating with someone who wants to make a blue snowman (that was Joey) and a 4 year old......

Let's just say that they didn't turn out like the pictures.

The Setup:




She looks pumped, doesn't she?


There we go. There's the forced smile that Mommy insisted she wear. :)













I just realized that we failed to take pictures of all the cookies we decorated.






Oh wait here's one picture:



Sike.