Christmas Season 2011

It seems that this year the family has been particularly enjoying the Christmas season. Abby got to help us put up the tree for the first time and both of our girls got to help place the ornaments. We've shown each of the girls which ornaments are from their first Christmas and they love to point them out. They also can't wait to come downstairs every morning to turn on the Christmas tree lights and move the advent calendar one day closer to Christmas.

We have a few pictures from our tree ceremony.

We've missed the last year or two so we decided it was time for another visit to Santa. Nora is very excited any time she sees a picture of Santa Claus. On Thanksgiving she watched most of the parade with Kristin and was ecstatic when the Santa float finally came. She kept grabbing hold of Kristin and yelling, "Santa! Santa! Santa!".

All in all we thought she would really enjoy seeing him, we were wrong.

We had fresh ginger bread cookies before we left.


Abby was reasonably excited to sit with Santa and tell him what she would like for Christmas.




Nora was slightly less excited to sit with Santa.




She calmed down eventually, but was pretty wiped out at the end.


Here she is hiding from Santa.

We did a little shopping afterwards and as we were walking to the van we went in the direction of Santa and Nora started saying, "No Santa! No Santa!". We'll work on it though, by next year I'm sure she'll have forgotten all about it and be excited to see him again.