Christmas Part Two

If we are home, we usually spend Christmas Eve with Wes' side of the family. Not all the family could make it before Christmas this year, so we had an after Christmas, Christmas Eve. :) We did do dinner and church with Grandma Chris on actual Christmas Eve, but we didn't take many photos. Here are some pics from Christmas Part Two.

Emeline in her outfit ready to go see the family!

 The cousins took to each other right away. Here they are playing piano.

 Grandma Chris and her girls.

Emeline likes Uncle Kevin!

Cousin Kaelin posing with gifts.

Emeline opens one.

Matching sweaters for the girls from Auntie Jenn.

The best part of presents is the ribbon!

Christmas Day

We spent Christmas Day at my parents house. Here are some pics from Emeline's first Christmas morning.

Playing with Great Grandma and Grandma before breakfast.

Matching hair bows from Grandma Susan and Grandpa David 

 A singamagig in all its glory. Awesome present from cousin Kristen!

 

 Opening a present from Mommy and Daddy.

All dressed up with mommy for Christmas dinner.

With Great Grandma Diane.

Wes' family joined us for dinner. With Great Grandma Betty and Grandma Chris

Grandma Chris is fun!

Ready for dinner.

After dinner pics with Daddy.

Advent

As we started out the Christmas season, we decided to start a family tradition of having an advent calendar to help us enjoy the expectation of celebrating the birth of Christ. Wes and I made little origami boxes, and we filled them with Bible verses from the Christmas story and little chocolates.

We knew Emeline probably wouldn't remember the events surrounding her first Christmas, but we wanted to start some new traditions anyway. On the nights leading up to Christmas, after dinner, we'd open up a box, read the verse and enjoy a little gift of chocolate. This turned out to be one of Emeline's favorite parts of the day. She just LOVED playing with the chocolate wrappers. After a few days, she would start to clap her little feet when she saw the boxes on table. Here's a video of her enjoying the wrapper. And don't worry! We didn't leave her unattended with those. :)

Tree Trimming

Discovering ornaments...(yes V, I still use that ball you gave us Freshman year :) )

Remembering....a photo ornament of Wes and I the first Christmas we were married.

 Attacking Mommy...

All done!

iPhone Photo Dump - November

Here's some of our November...

Trying on a new winter coat for our trip to Oregon.  This little 8 month old is wearing an 18 month size jacket!

She loves Papa.

Swim lessons with Michelle.

All bundled up!

Dinner with Papa.

Big hat.

Wild hair.

Trying out the travel high chair.

Messy face.

Rain drops on roses.

Baby jeans!

Mischief.