Christmas 2011

Despite my lousy camera skills and a deficiency of pictures (I really did a poor job this year!), we had a lovely Christmas. The boys were excited about their gifts and about spending lots of time with family.

Phil made us breakfast on Christmas Eve, this is a running snowman for me!

Brother presents were a hit - once again Phil amazed us with his "skills" - homemade hats for the angry birds Jacob got for Ben. Jacob got new baseballs from Micah and Micah got new Yoda and Boba Fett legos from Ben. (not shown)

I didn't get many Christmas morning shots. Jacob loved his new composite bat and pitch back, Ben's favorite was an oragami book and Micah got many things to make. We've also been grooving to the new Muppets movie soundtrack all week!!

We got lots of fun Baird action, though again, not many pictures. Phil's favorite was playing for my mom to sing!

One of our fun new games: konexi...though we were never able to get all 26 letters on!!

Micah has become quite the creator these days. Displayed with Aunt Lynette, he made this Rudolph and Sleigh at Grandma's house and a new star wars ship with his wood set he got for Christmas.

I am so thankful for my family. I love spending a little extra time with them and basking in the magic of Christmas. It was so nice to go to church on Christmas morning this year. The boys were able to sing with a children's choir on one of our choir songs and I loved that. Phil and I were able to sing with the choir and those lovely songs helped remind us of the meaning of Christmas. I hope your days were merry too!