We were home in Tacoma for Christmas this year, and it was our first Christmas with 2 kids. Of course, Mathias is too young to understand what is going on (although he does love to stare at the Christmas tree and all the lights!), but Miriam was very excited about Christmas - presents, baking cookies, Santa, Jesus' birthday...they even had a "birthday party for Jesus" at her preschool. I'm going to let the pictures tell most of the story, but we had a wonderful Christmas - good food, great times with family, excited kid(s) opening presents. We are thankful for our family and friends' generosity with gifts, especially towards Miriam and Mathias. And since we did a lot of dressing up and getting ready to go places this Christmas, we've realized that getting 2 kids ready to go places is more than twice the work, especially since neither of them can get themselves ready yet.
Here are some pictures, from Christmas Eve as well as Christmas Day:
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| Decorating sugar cookies - Miriam loved putting on sprinkles the most! |
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| Miriam's first drawing of a person! (Uncle Vince) |
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| Matching hot rollers, Christmas Eve |
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| Miri putting cookies on a plate for Santa |
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| Pointing out where the cookies are, so Santa doesn't miss them |
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| Family of 4 - Christmas picture! |
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| Big sister & little brother Christmas photo - adorable! |
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| Mario and his little man on Christmas. |
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| Mathias meeting Great Grandma June for the first time. |
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| Miriam and Charlize (cousin) playing very nicely together! |
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| "We are hiding!" |
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| Miriam studying her fire engine (which sprays actual water!) - she loves it |
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| Christmas morning! |
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| Christmas morning - Christmas PJs! |
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| Christmas makes Mathias tired... |
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| Miri using her tools to open presents... |
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| Miri learning how to take pictures |
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| Mario's surprise present for me - a KitchenAid mixer (I love it!) |
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| Christmas Day family photo |
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| First batch of cookies in my new mixer |
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