**Christmas**

We had so much fun with Christmas this year. We

had lots of family parties, most of which we were too busy

talking to take pictures, so we'll just have to hope our

memories hold up well. Christmas has never been so..

magical, wonderful and fun until our buggy came along.

She makes even the best of things better! Our pictures

are going in reverse starting with christmas night, and

working its way back to christmas eve. It was our year

to have Christmas dinner at our house with the winns.

And christmas eve was at nana & bumpas with all of

our beloved traditions!

Lexi was a good monitor of the food, and really liked

feeding anybody who would walk by. Halli was just

happy to be getting something to eat.

manning her post.. She loves her apron Nana made her

No matter how many cans of olives i put on a

seven layer dip, lexi turns it into six layer dip in a

hurry because she sits and picks off all the olives.

She can sit down and eat a can just for a snack.

Christmas was no exception.

The anticipation is killing everyone (ps anyone who got

pictures from that night, please send them to me. I dont even

have any from the "treasure hunt" barefoot in the snow!)

Who woulda guessed her favorite toy would be the

"mater" coloring book from the dollar store?

Andy, jacks, ayla and lexi in their jammies

how cute is he?

All the excitement really wore ayla out

Well the luck of us Winns continues..

Cody was beating the mash potatoes and yet

another set of beaters broke on us..

2 in 1 month! look at us go!

All the boys pick out a present for tess every

year in hopes of making her cry on christmas eve.

Little did they know that she is into super ugly hats!

Me and my mom had to search for one just like this

just before, because its what she had asked santa for..

and the north pole doesn't do ugly!

The christmas eve jammies (shirt anyways), apron & jewelry

from nana. what an ensemble, my girl has the best of taste!

We let the kids open their cousin presents early

on christmas eve so they would have some entertainment

(more for our sake) the "christmas spirit" in kids can get

quite rowdy! lexi loved her princesses from ayla

Once lexi got a hang of cutting cookies she was a maniac.

As soon as i got the dough rolled she was slapping the cutters

down faster than i could grab them, she was 2 handing it..

We had lots of "special" shapes. But she was so proud of herself.

Working on her masterpiece for daddy. She loves doing stickers now