Breakfast With Santa Claus

Early Saturday morning we met Ryder and Ashton to go have breakfast with Santa! We ate french toast,sausage, fruit and drank some yummy hot chocolate.

We enjoyed working on some Christmas activities and listened to Christmas carolers.

The best part of breakfast however was visiting with Santa! This is the first year Chase has sat on Santa's lap since he was three months old. He announced this year that he wasn't scared of him! Yeah!

Merry Christmas!

Family Picture Time

We had our family pictures taken a couple of weeks ago and I got them back tonight! I have been so excited to see the results. Christina P. of Christina P. Photography took them for us. She is so talented, here is her website if you want to check her out.  http://christinapphotography.com/  I really love all of them!!! These are only a few of the 96 pictures she took. I am going to have a hard time deciding which ones I want! If anyone wants one for a Christmas present (Aunt's, Uncles and Grandparents) let me know.

Thank you so much Christina! Even with the wind they turned out great!

Cookie Exchange

We started the holiday season off right this year. Kelli had a great idea to have a cookie exchange with some of our friends and neighbors and boy did we have fun! As most of you know my sister is super creative and can bake some great cookies!  

We had everyone bring 2-3 dozen cookies to share along with the recipe! We also had a cookie decorating contest! Aunt Kelli and Chase were hard at work decorating their cookie. Chase had some stiff competition. Everyone that came was so creative! All of the cookies ended up looking great.

Here are the decorated cookies!

I wanted to take more pictures of the party but we were all to busy eating all

of the yummy cookies that everyone brought. Here is the table at the end of the party!

Just want to thank everyone who came. I had a wonderful time and I hope you

did too! Let me know if we should have another one next year!