Christmas Morning....with sick babies.....

Averie and Andrew had a great Christmas morning. However, they both have really snotty noses, so forgive the "shiny" noses in the pictures.

Averie sitting in her new chair reading a book. She did not want to be disturbed.

Santa 2009

Santa found us in Alaska! Whew, we were worried! I know that Andrew and Averie will not remember this visit from Santa, but we sure had fun setting it all up for them. If you can't tell, they are getting trikes, a slide, a play kitchen, a shopping cart, and overstuffed chairs from PBKids. It is all really cute and I can't wait to see their little faces in the morning.

Happy on Christmas Eve!

Andrew and Averie have never been interested in the camera, but for some reason they were tonight. I got the camera out to take a few pictures on Christmas Eve. They just grinned and carried on the whole time. I thought I would share a couple of their precious smiles with you.

Trimming the Tree

Johnna and Jeremy Stafford came to visit us for Thanksgiving. While they were here Johnna wanted to help me get my Christmas stuff up. I needed a new tree this year because I donated my tree from last year to my friend Farah. We went to Sam's and they only had ONE tree left. It was a twelve foot, pre-lit artificial tree. However, it was "orange tagged" because the bottom strands of lights were not working. This tree was marked down from $273 to $80. We just couldn't pass it up. Johnna, who is "Her Highest Majesty of ALL things Christmas and Electrical Wiring", is confident that she will be able to get the lights to work, so we bought it. It did take her a little while, and I am not sure that I will be able to figure it out next year, but the lights work! The first picture is of the tree right after all the lights came on.

Andrew helping.

Averie helping.

All finished! It is a really beautiful tree. I am so proud of it, and Johnna taught me how to make bows! She made the bow on the top of the tree, but I made some that are hanging on the banister. I will put pictures up of those later.