Christmas morning

Here are some pictures from Christmas morning and after Mass on Christmas Day. I'm bummed that I didn't get a picture of the 6 of us all dressed up after church, everyone looked so cute in their Christmas outfits! Oh well, maybe next year!

Snowy day fun

Since we got stuck inside today, we had to have a little fun. The kids went for a swim in the bathtub! The sure seemed to enjoy it!

More snow...

These are pictures from outside our house this afternoon. My van had only been parked in that spot from noon until 4 when I took the picture and the snow is quite piled around it.

Can hardly see down to the Station which is a block away!

Cookie Baking...

I decided to do some baking yesterday, so last week I had asked our friend Katie if they'd like to come over and help. Here are a few pictures we got from our day baking. We got quite a bit done considering all the extra "help" we had. I still have sugar cookies to make and gingerbread, but I'll get there, maybe later tonight after the kids are in bed!

The dads and boys played Wii while the ladies were in the kitchen. Here is the dads taking it easy!

Lots of help!

Sleepy Addie with sugar all over her!

Double trouble...Adeline and Clare!

 Now for some pictures of some of our goodies

Oreo bon-bons

peanut blossoms

Sleepy Stella

Carmel and Krispy Covered Marshmallows

Amelia's newest hair cut

Amelia and I had a mini-girls date on Saturday afternoon and we both got our hair cut. Hers is super cute! Mine is too, but I didn't take picture of it styled! Thank you Katie for making us beautiful! :)

Children's Mass

Saturday night was the Children's Mass at Church. Amelia was a cow, Paul was a donkey and Stella was Baby Jesus. All of the kids looked super cute and it's always fun to see the Children's Mass! All of our kids have played Baby Jesus, except for Amelia, I think we were out of town the year she was a baby!

Pauly the Donkey

Cute little donkey!

Amelia and her friend Brooke as Cows

All of the kids and Stella in the manger as Baby Jesus.

Santa rode into town on a...

...FIRETRUCK! Rumor has it, the reindeer got hungry outside of town and refused to get Santa to his destination, so one of the members of our fire department had to go out and get Santa and bring him to town. The kids thought it was pretty cool that Santa rode around town in the fire truck wishing everyone a Merry Christmas before going to the township hall for all the children to come visit him.

I wish I would have thought to grab my camera a minute or two sooner so I could have gotten a better picture of Santa on the fire truck, but this works!

Santa riding on the grass rig

Paul visiting with Santa

Amelia telling Santa her wishes

Addie was afraid of Santa!

Amelia thought Stella should be in on the pictures too...even if she's buried in her carseat!