A Merry Christmas

What a wonderful season. My favorite part of the holiday season is how much time we get to spend with family.


Gracie says her favorite part of Christmas this year was that Faith was here and she got to give her presents. Here are Gracie and Pappy on Christmas morning.

Faith's favorite gift was a Kai-lan doll that Gracie gave her.

Gracie's favorite things were the baking items she received: baking mixes, utensils, a cook book. These are her cinnamon muffins.


Even with Mitch's crazy work schedule this year, we tried to fit in as many of our usual traditions as we could and I was please with how many of them we were able to squeeze in.

The Family

"THE FAMILY"

"THE KIDDOS"

"THE SNOW ANGELS"

And Lastly, I like to call this photo: "A FAR CRY FROM FUZHOU"

Sugar Cookie Time

It was sugar cookie time at our house...and OH, the mess! I think it takes as long to clean up as it does to do the whole project. When we were done, I said to Aunt Sue, "It doesn't seem like you should be tired after baking cookies, does it?" "Well, I know I am!" she said. It was alot of fun though.

The cookies that Faith worked on were completely non-edible. She played with the same piece of dough forever. She separated her piece of dough into about 20 little pieces and said they were snowmen.

Rice and Snow

Ok, so we were grocery shoppping at Walmart and the boys laid this gigantic bag of rice in the cart with Faith and said they were getting her back to her roots!!!

...and today was the first substantial snow fall of the year. Notice I took the pictures from INSIDE. Gracie and the boys were showing Faith how to eat snowballs. She was skeptical at first but soon caught on, only to be slowed down by her freezing cold hands.



I was noticing how close Christmas is and I haven't bought a single gift yet! I am not on the ball at all this year!