Holiday Picture Extravaganza

Thanksgiving was everything I wanted it to be -- the kids had so much fun playing with family, and I loved that we cooked together, cleaned up together, played card and other party games, looked through ads, and we were able to go and visit Greg's grandmother and a bunch of his family for several hours too. It was a long, exhausting day, but well worth it all. I got a bunch of pictures of the girls eating dinner -- Ellie was a crazy potato covered mess. It was cute.

Here's Ellie showing off her messy shirt and pants. She's quite pleased with herself. You can tell by her strange new smile she makes everytime she grins cheesily now!

After my earlier, and enraging, experiences of getting our tree up and lit, it was a nice change of pace to put the ornaments on with our girls. They loved it. Ellie was in complete awe of the tree and the decorations, and Annie had the time of her life putting dozens and dozens of ornaments on the tree (or the bottom branches of the tree at least!)

Ellie's cheesy camera grin.

Lacy & Ellie making matching faces.

Annie admiring the snow globe.

Ellie singing along with one of our Christmas decorations. Fa la la la.



Here's just a comparison of Aunt Lacy & 15 month old Annie making "Annie's face"
and Aunt Lacy & 18 month old Ellie making "Ellie's face"