Christmas!

Okay, I'm a slow blogger, but here's Christmas Day (better late than never, right?) It was a fine Christmas morning, complete with loads of paper to be ripped, aggrevating packaging to be mangled, small parts to be lost (and found days later, fortunately), and gift piles to be carefully scrutinized for "fairness".

       

More on the Christmas theme...

What's Christmas without a letter to Santa?

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!

Trimming the tree ... visit with Santa ... posing with new holiday dress (she's very fond of this one) ... Nutcracker: Daughter is there, fourth from the left (the otherwise terrific little Canon SD800 struggles with low-light situations like this :-)

       

Me Joyful!

I think it actually happened during baking time on another day, but Daughter was in a very good mood and piped up, in her "little girl" voice (and grammer), "Me joyful!"

We're joyful too, to have you and your brother in our lives.

 

Newest Christmas Tradition

This marks the third year of making a Christmas Gingerbread House, so I think it now qualifies as a Tradition. This year Sydney wanted to help with the "main" section, but also wanted one to do by herself.

   

Haircut

Daughter decides it's time to try short hair:

Thanksgiving!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving, with lots of family from far parts of the globe. My photo-journalism skills need some work, but you'll get the idea. Aunt outdid herself with a wonderful feast (well, she had plenty of enthousiastic contributers!) and Uncle laid out a beautiful table from his ample supply of dinner- and flatware.