Merry Christmas Dad

This year my Dad took a job and is away for Christmas, so I thought I would do a little Christmas post for him.

A BIG thank you to my Mom and Dad for another fun filled 12 days of Christmas. I tried to get a picture for everyday and some days I failed, but I hope you enjoy the ones I did get. We had so much fun opening gifts and feeling your love and kindness. Thank you so much. It has really been great.

Gingerbread House. We have been making them every year for a few years now and we had a lot of fun putting this one together. Claire helped for a minute, but then got upset because she kept getting frosting on her fingers and she hates getting her hands sticky. So Marcella finished it and it turned out pretty well.

This was a big hit. We got a recorded book from Hallmark, Twas the night before Christmas, with my Dad reading it. Super fun.

This year I had a fabulous Birthday. I got to hang out with my friend Cyndi, then Jon and I got to go out Friday night and he surprised me by getting Cyndi and Heather to watch the girls for us over night. It was so fun and relaxing to just hang out together. Especially after a hard semester. On Sunday my actual B-day we had some friends over for cake and ice cream. I sure love Birthdays and this one was super fun.

This was a big hit, if you couldn't tell. It is the Elephant game. Claire LOVED it. The girls would just laugh and laugh. We had lots of fun playing it.

Christmas Eve was a little different this year, being our first one away from family. But we got to spend it with some new friends and we had a fabulous time. These guys have become our family away from family. Love y'all.

When we got home from our party the girls got to open there pj's and a book.

Santa Came. We are so excited. I can't wait to get up in the morning and start all this fun-ness!

Here are a few random pictures form the past couple months that I took off my phone.

Marcella has been having so much fun sliding down the stairs in a sleeping bag lately. Well she was doing this one day and then it got quiet and so I went to check on her and she had fallen asleep in the middles on the floor in the sleeping bag. I guess she wore herself out going up and down the stairs.

We went and saw Tangled to celebrate Jon being done with the semester. When we got to the theater we realized it was only playing in 3d. Claire did pretty well. I was impressed. She was being bribed with popcorn and chocolate, so she stayed seated the whole time.

Yes that is the top of a screw and yes it got burned into my thumb. don't ask, just know that a couple days and a few cuss words later, I finished this bad boy:

I also made a stove and oven. I hope Claire enjoys it.

We went to eat at a Mexican place called Taco Rico. Super good, but my food was so spicy that my lips were burning for a while afterwards.

Well, Dad we hope you have a Merry Christmas and We will try to get some videos up tomorrow. Love you lots and lots.