Christmas 2013

Tuesday, 12/24/13

Christmas Eve! How is it possible... the picture before church.. not bad ;) 

Lydia 4-1mo, Lindsay 7-4mo, Lauren 8-8mo & LeaAnn 3-10mo

Look at this! You can even see her dimples :D

And so... we went to church, which was packed! And a great service... and I say, "we need to get a family photo" but you see the result. We never did get one. Ever. :( That makes me sad b/c it's gone and we'll never get it back.
BUT! Grammy came to service and to our house for dinner. Grandpa was on-call. This was after dinner of course ;) notice LeaAnn's attire???
When we got to church, Kris said, "LeaAnn! I love your dress it's so pretty."
LeaAnn put her hand in the air and said, "my sim-suit, in da washer!"

LeaAnn was a stylist tonight :)

new game of choice, chase the ace!

funny girls :)

Here is the spread for Santa & his reindeer :)

The letter that Lauren wrote :) the part about the ice is b/c Jimmy & Andrea came over for supper and Andrea fell on the ice right outside our door :(

 Card made for Dad from Lindsay...

the morning arrives! Wednesday, 12/25/13
Lydia got up to got to the bathroom, 6:20. Chris comes in and says, "are you going to make them wait 10-minutes?"

I did not do a great job taking pics or filming anything... I really just wanted to sit with them and watch as they opened... It was great. I might try still cam-cording next year, just to capture their squeals and excitement :) but I would not have changed a thing.
Lydia with her cat-like reflexes pounced on her present as soon as they were done with stockings :) but I did manage to keep them going one at a time... though tough, they did it :)

It was the year of "Monkey-baby!" A fur-real  monkey delivered by Santa :)

new raincoats...

but this is how she was most happy :) stripped out of her jammies, down to her new sim-suit and playing with monkey-baby!

Look how old she looks!

New this year, we 'paused'... they were all happily playing with stuff, Chris was assembling the new doll beds, and we took a time-out. It was great :)

the only time I did turn on the camcorder... Chris was playing the new Wii game, "Wipeout!" It was really funny :)

doctoring everyone with Doc McStuffin's kit :)

this perfect day ended with sledding up to Wilgenbusch's and sharing a pork loin that Chris cooked :)

perfect ending to a perfect Christmas!