Merry Christmas!

Christmas Fun Before Christmas

The girls and I got to walk around down town Lodi while the guys finished watching the new Chronicles of Narnia movie... We got to see Santa! He was parked in front of the Antiquarium... a newish store with way too many cute things inside. So many that its hard to focus in on anything!

Here's a peek inside. Francesca enjoyed the many Christmas tree displays.

Saying hello to the annual Santa Bear in front of the RockyMountain Chocolate Factory.

Vincent strung up some lights on the tree house.

And the Christmas tree! The boys brought the tree in and set it up in the stand.

Vincent did the lights. It was great! All I got to do was the fun part, ornaments.

Fresca had fun digging into the boxes of decorations.

Here's a new ornament I bought on etsy.com. It was made by my friend Sharon.

Veronica's been enjoying the lights this first Christmas for her.

A surprise visit from Santa at our home!

Christmas Dokie

What's a Christmas Dokie?

Well here are the kids making some Christmas dokies!






Here's the gingerbread man version of a Christmas dokie. Wear do I get dokie from? Francesca of course! She pronounces cookie "dokie". :)

Christmas Card Photo Shoot

Here are some pics I took at an orchard on Jack Tone Road, about 5 minutes from our house. These were doctored up with www.picnik.com

Christmas Photos

Ho Ho Ho!

What a gentle sweet Santa, don't you think?

Finally I'm posting our Christmas photos... there's not much. With baby number 4 on the way, I haven't been up to doing any more than I HAVE to do lately!

Modeling some weird stocking stuffers from Old St. Nick.

Here are some pre-Christmas photos of decorating the tree...

... and making Grandparent gifts.

A Unique Gift

For Christmas my sister got me this cute scrabble necklace! She always picks the perfect presents! Thanks Kathy!

You can find more pendants from the etsy site: www.scrabblesrus.etsy.com . If you've never checked out etsy before... you should!

Merry Christmas!

Thank you Jesus for being born in this world and saving us now and forever!

Getting Ready for Christmas

Here are photos of some Christmas preparations.

Below is Vincent trimming the tree on December 23.

Zachary sprinkling peppermints on the minty fudgy bars.

Below are photos of the kids getting ready for Christmas Eve Mass at St. Michael's Parish. The boys and Jason were part of the choir during the children's program.

Christmas Day gingerbread house decorating.