Christmas Festivities

I just love the Christmas Season.

I love the decorations and the smells and the food and the fun parties.

Here is a look into our Christmas Festivities for 2011.

Each year my dad's extended family gets together for a Thanksgiving/Christmas celebration. It's a fun time with eating and presents and a dirty Santa ornament exchange. Here are a few pictures from that get together. The kids were not great at taking pictures this day! Ha!

This is my Mom(Nana) with the kids all in red and black.

 Lulu had two teeth pulled over the Christmas break. This is probably the first two of many that will need to be pulled. The poor girl has a TINY mouth.

I tried SEVERAL times to get a few good pictures of the kids for Christmas presents. It has gotten increasingly harder to get all of them smiling in one picture. These are the best two!

What Christmas holiday would be complete without some Holiday baking?! Here we are making chocolate cookies with candy cane sprinkles and peppermint icing. Isaiah really loves rolling the dough, as you can see!

The girls helping me. Addi is on the counter because it was a Wednesday(her special day).

Isaiah thinks the spoon at the end is the best part.

But he hadn't tasted these cookies yet. Look at that! They were so pretty and that peppermint icing was to die for!

Our gingerbread house 2011. This was the best yet. The kids had the idea of using some cupcake picks to ice onto the house as decorations. The Santa on the front is from a cupcake. Emma Claire also had the idea to give Santa some cocoa by biting a M&M in half to make it look like a mug. She's a culinary genius!

Another cupcake pick for the Christmas tree through the window. So cute! I loved the mini cupcake bushes also decorated for Christmas! The kids and their daddy did a great job with this!

Each year we have Chocolate syrup and biscuits for breakfast on Christmas Eve. Isaiah has only had it a few times in his life and as you might imagine, he LOVES it. For those wondering about Chocolate syrup, it's much like Chocolate gravy, only better...I'll post the recipe another time.

The girls like it too!

Mia will have to wait to have it next year, but the biscuits aren't bad, ehh, Mia!?

My two Middle Smittles are usually up to NO good!

The big girls getting ready to make our annual Christmas cookies!

Addi's hair has taken on a mind of it's own. I think it must need a trim. It's SO wild in the mornings!! Here she is ready to make cookies. 

Even Mia got in on the cookie action! She's such a joyful baby!

Daddy and Lulu icing cookies.

Addi showing off one of her cookies. They were famous for having LOTS of toppings!

KK and Bubby wearing some of their icing.

Leaving cookies and milk out for Santa.

Leaving magic Reindeer food!

Momma and her Littles. What a blessing.

Our Christmas 2011.

Daddy and Mia going to wake up the kids with jingle bells.

Morning Smittles round 1 

Morning Smittles round 2! Look at that hair!

CLASSIC Christmas morning face on Addi.

Bubby got a t-ball set and a new hat.

Mia got a Sophie!! She LOVES it!

Our family all ready for church on Christmas morning.

The girls all looking pretty in red and black.

Bubby handsome as can be.

My beautiful children after church. I just want to GOOSH them!

Isaiah in his Christmas sweater and new firetruck shoes. He's wearing my dad's Santa hat. It kept coming down over his eyes.

Our stockings. They don't look so overwhelming in this picture, but in person Scotty and I both had to double count them because it looked like SO many stockings!

Our after-Christmas Makeover party!