Catch up #1 Christmas Time!

I started our blog after Christmas so I never got to post any Christmas pictures. We were able to do all of our usual Christmas traditions with the family (gingerbread houses, cookies and carroling, and hide-and-seek at the Tumbleweed Christmas Tree). Allie got to sit on Santa's lap 3 times this year! My nursing school girls, Allie, and I made goodie plates for the nursing home where we did clinicals. We went to zoo lights with the nursing girls, too! We had a great Christmas. It was our first Christmas in our house! Allie made out like a bandit (again), but we figure why not spoil her while we can...she won't be an only child forever (and no, that is not an annoucement). We spent Christmas Eve at the Powell's and Christmas day at the Davis'. We felt very blessed to spend so much time with family.


Allie concentrating very hard
on frosting her cookie.


The rules are simple: you break
a cookie, you eat it. Allie just
decided to lick the knife mid-frosting
the cookie instead of waiting for
it to break.


Tumbleweed Christmas Tree


Almost all of us in the picture!


Allie and Daddy's turn to count!


Zoo lights with my nursing girls
Jess, Sharla, and Shaela. We
missed you Jaime!


Nursing Home goodie plates:
sugar cookies, buck eyes, and
chocolate covered pretzels...
just what those diabetic patients
need


Jess, Jaime, and Shaela rolling
out buck eyes


Frosting cookies for the goodie
plate with Auntie Sharla


Apparently Allie thought
the you-break-it-you-
eat-it rule applied here too


Allie loved playing with the
ornaments.


Papa (Nick's Dad) made each family
a kitchenette for the kids to take home.
The knobs turn, doors open, the curtains
move to have a puppet show, and there
is a chalk board on the back. What a
crafty Papa Allie has!


Grammy Jean gave Allie
Thunder for Christmas


Just a few of the Davis cousins
Allie gets to play with all the time.