Our Christmas in Pictures

I absolutely adore Christmastime.  I always make lots of holiday plans throughout the season...basically cramming as much Christmas as possible into the numbered days between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Since this was Adelaide's first Christmas, my paparazzi tendencies were even more extreme than usual.  Here's a small representation of the thousand (srsly) photos we took over the past month.

Adelaide helped trim the tree, and was especially good at staring at the lights.  

We finally found something that fascinates her more than the tv! : /

"Dad, this one should go between the ribbons, to the right of the snowflake." 

Tree trimmer extrordinaire!

Lexi worked the camera with her red bow (thanks to Catelyn :) 

Adelaide LOVED Santa and cheesed it up for the camera!

I practiced my bokeh photography skills.

While Lexi gave Adelaide a paparazzi pep talk.

Nailed it.

Lexi protested the Christmas picture.   

So I tried to tame her, and we see how well that went.  

Victory!  Mad props to Brooksie.

Adelaide loved opening her stocking. 

It snowed while we opened gifts!    

Lexi was convinced Adelaide's toys were actually for her.   

Christmas morning was a success.

We had belly laughs.

Aaaaaaaand angry tears.  

*After driving to Hutchinson, we had to abandon Christmas Eve service because she was NOT HAVING IT.  Clearly we have some Jesus appreciation work to do.*

Of course I had to get a better picture of her in her Christmas dress, so the next day we re-created the Christmas Eve scene for Round 2 of pictures.

Worth it.  

Merry Christmas and much Love from our home to yours in the coming year!