Happy New Year

So Paisley of course fell asleep earlier than us and Adey was ready for bed around 9.  So we chose to do our celebration a little early and next year will include Paisley and maybe even McKinley.  We had headbands and poppers and sparkling cider and it was fun!

It's snow time!

Shoveling snow, eating snow, building a snowman, throwing snowballs...lets face it playing in the snow is just so much fun!  We sure wish it would come back like it normally does so we can play in it again!

afterwards is time for snuggles, cartoons, snuggles and hot chocolate!

December in a blur...

Our beautiful tree!

&& our stockings...I love decorating for the holidays:

&&& Our beloved Annabelle the Elf came back to visit us...we were all so good this year and she sure spoiled us this year! (she made elf milk, a snowman on our door, decorated our TV, brought us bowl full of chocolate, wrote us a message with marshmallows, ate some of our pizza and of course watched us from various places in our house like the light and tree and stockings...she is a great little addition to our holiday season!)

To start the season off this year we made hand print wreaths!  The girls both love doing art projects!

Then we made reindeers also using our hands:

Adey made her own button tree...Paisley didn't want to make one:

We went with some friends up to Temple Square to see the beautiful lights...it was so busy and cold and this was the only picture we got:

Adey got to see Santa...Paisley was asleep (surprisingly)

And of course on Christmas Eve we made cookies for Santa...and put out milk and carrots too!  We love to spoil Santa and he ate quite a few which means we must have done a good job!

And of course...Christmas Day!

We had a wonderful holiday season (next year I will need to catch more traditions on camera...but we had a great first Christmas as a new family. Crazy to think next year we will be adding another little girl to our family and it will be even more fun)