Christmas!

Our first Christmas was with Sam and Cari, who spoiled the girls with some great books back from the San Diego Zoo and gave Cassidy her own gooming bag....pink of course and a great spiralgraph!

Uncle Sam showing Cass how to use the spriralgraph

 Christmas Eve up north was wonderful,

 G'ma and Papa with all the grandkids 15 years old to 15 mos

 The cousins...pretty cute and the best part is they are all best friends.  It is so great watching them all together and how well the older ones play with the younger ones, our girls are pretty lucky, and loved!

 Rylee muggin' and getting ready to open presents...but not hers

 Ry's new hat, giraffe

 Sawyer's new hat...monkey

 The girls

Lisa trying to play referee while we were trying to find the package with another toy

Lori getting a "call" from Sawyer 

 G'ma hanging out with Rylee

 Of course, boxes are always the most fun...Cassidy and Sawyer

 After presents and dinner it was time to get jammies on, and there was a lot of action with the 3 girls, this is the only "decent" picture

Papa Jerry and Sawyer

 The girls (Sawyer has red jammies, Rylee has pink)

 Lindsey showed Cassidy how to track Santa and she was definitely into it, checking as soon as we got back home and showing G'ma and Papa Doug where he was

We got the cookies ready

 and then spread the "reindeer food" into the grass so they will wait patiently

 Christmas morning found us with lots more presents and good times

By far, my favorite presents were made this year.  Dad made the girls their own coat rack for the mud room, complete with the Anchor Down brand and a shelf for all the odds and ends.  It's perfect and looks great!

Then Chad gave me my biggest surprise.  A swing he built for me...it's been on my list since we had a covered porch to put it on. It's beautiful.  He has spent so much time in the shop, which I've been locked out of, and he did a wonderful job.  Now I can listen to the rain, drink my cup of coffee and have another place to snuggle.  I am a lucky girl to have such talented men in my life!   

 G'ma and Cass did a great job on Baby Jesus's B-day cake

 Finally the dinner was served

It was a great Christmas filled with so many blessings and love.