Christmas

We had a great Christmas this year and one of the most fun things was our great "Secret Elves" that visited did the twelve days of Christmas for our family.  The Evans family made it so much fun we definitely want to do this tradition for someone else when our kids get a little older!  Here are some of our gingerbread masterpieces.

Cory and Kristen's family visited from Missouri for the holidays.  Josie was so excited to have her fun cousin Alice be an angel with her.

We had kind of a wacky inn keeper (Brady), but everyone else was great.  It was fun to have a real baby Jesus this year.

Here are our family picture attempts for our Christmas pajamas.

They were just a tad bit excited about Christmas morning.

Josie asked for a teddy bear from Santa and she has since named him Mr. Miggins.

Rachel was pretty excited about oil pastels and art paper.

Ian got a slingshot and a great helmet from Nana and Grandad.

A camera!

Here's Josie's loot from the morning.

She's just a tiny bit goofy!

Rachel was pretty exited too.

And Ian was at piece with his haul.

Andy was initiated into the silky blanket club.

And Ian was so excited to give Andy an adorable panda bear (the name "Andy Pandy" came about shortly after).

Ian and Ethan were pretty excited to practice slingshots with marshmellows.  And we had a great Christmas breakfast of crepes.

Rachel loved her pottery wheel.

And her bow and arrow.

Josie was pretty excited about this outfit from Nana and Grandad.

Here is Rachel's finished pottery project.  We had a great Christmas - thanks everyone!