Christmas Morning

The pictures probably say enough.

O' Come Let Us Adore Him

We've been calling Avery "The Christmas Poo" these past few weeks. No tree, no Santa, no presents - no fun. Yet, it is Avery who truly understands the meaning of Christmas. Last night we went to Church with Nana and Papa Mulholland- the girls were all dressed up and excited to see everyone. As we took our seats, the girls were looking around and dancing to the Christmas hymns. Avery could not contain her excitement .... Baby Jesus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, it's Baby Jesus! We could barely keep her in her seat. She wanted to run up to the Nativity at the alter to see baby Jesus. All through Mass Avery sang the hymns and watched for Baby Jesus. It's amazing that a two year old can remind everyone what Christmas is really all about.

No Tree Fall Down! Part Two

No Tree Fall Down! Part One

Doug and I have a tradition of cutting down our own Christmas tree and dragging it out of the woods to take home. Last year we took the dogs on our great adventure. We ran around and Barnacle peed on things. It was great.

This year,no dogs :( But, we took the kids, a camera, and the video camera! Needless to say, we were a little more civilized with our approach to claiming our tree. We went to the local tree stand.

Sophie and Avery were very excited! We sang Christmas carols and talked about getting ready for Santa. The girls ran around and even found munchkin sized trees.




After about 15 minutes of running around and carrying on we finally found the perfect tree. It was about 7 feet tall and about 5 feet round. It was beautiful! We walked around and viewed it from all angles - yup this was it. Doug handed over the video camera and I was ready to capture the official cutting of the tree. The girls and I stepped back and got prepared to watch BaBa at work.

"NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" All cutting comes to an immediate stop. We ask Avery, "What's the matter?" She cries, "NO TREE FALL DOWN!" We tried to reason with her. We told her that Santa needed us to put up a tree so he could have somewhere to put her presents. "Avery, Don't you want presents?" She said "No presents. No tree fall down." We told her we were going to decorate it all pretty for Santa. "No Santa." Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..... do we have a future tree hugger in the crowd?

Well, we cut the tree down fast and called over a tree farm worker to drag our tree back to the truck. Apparently, we got over her upset pretty quickly because she was helping hang ornaments a few hours later :)

Better Late Then Never

Here are the long awaited Baptism pictures. It's been a crazy few weeks- but we are ready to post again.