Merry Christmas to All, and to All a Good Night!

Lia especially loves "reading" to Rosie, and Rosie enjoys being a captive audience...

A Christmas Tree from the Culinary Institute

At Uncle Tim's, the girls had so much fun with their cousins Katie and Maddie, and of course their Uncle Mark.  Hard to believe there's no Christmas decorations in this photo...trust me that Tim did a fabulous job decorating...as usual!

New pajamas and getting ready for Santa to come...(how are they going to sleep?)

Christmas morning blueberry pancakes...

Christmas dessert was a chocolate peppermint cake.  It seemed like it came directly from the North Pole.  Very magical...

Lia noticed that Twinkle the elf had magically disappeared.  Twinkle's antics kept the girls on their toes through all the excitement! They miss her.

Sending Tidings of Joy

 I just get a kick out of seeing Rosie and Lia dressed up as angels.  They usually get crazy and goof around plenty, and we take a ton of photos.   This is one of my favorites; I thought this photo truly shows what fun they have together and how happy they are to have each other.

The girls are fascinated and curious about Santa.  Santa IS truly watching them (and waving to them)!

This is Rosie's first picture with Santa.  He offered her a present, and then she was OK with sitting on his lap.  Lia wanted nothing to do with it.  Usually when Lia sees Rosie being so brave, she will join her, but it didn't work this time.  This was a photo that Keith took at my ATA Holiday Party.  The girls had such a great time!  Hopefully soon I'll have a photo of Lia and Santa...be patient!