December!

Wow, December was one full month. It started off with a visit from Nanna. I was sad that I did not get any photo's, but I had a really good reason. Nanna came to help with Kiddo's so that I could have my varicose vein surgery. Because of my crazy bugling knotted tangled veins I had to have two procedures done. They were a week apart from each other and my last one was the Wednesday before Christmas! My mom was only able to help with the first procedure which was the worst. We got to eat out, play, see Christmas lights and enjoy time with her. Poor Lorelei ended up getting sick two days before Nanna left. My poor little girl ended up with a UTI. Once she felt better we made our gingerbread house!

 

Then we made time to see Santa before Christmas. You will notice that Lorelei is missing in the pictures. For the third year in a row she gets excited to go see Santa and then becomes petrified when we arrive. One of these days I'll just have to photo shop her in. :p

Deer in the headlights

Christmas Sunday best

My festive Christmas Jello. I can't wait to try the rainbow version. The kids thought this was awesome!

Natalie was ready for Santa to come!
The kids were so excited. The night before Christmas we watched the story of Jesus's birth online and tracked Santa across the world. Lorelei swears that she saw Santa fill their stockings.

How many people does it take, to help NaterB open her presents?

Riley got two sets of Marble runs. One from Santa and one from Aunt Mindy. He also got a smaller set last year from Grammy and G-pa. Once you add them all together you get a Marbletopia. We have spent many hours and many days playing and building. Plus daddy added his collection of marbles that made it even better.

Natalie enjoys the loud ruckus and loves being close to Ri and Lolli. As lolli would say "this was the best Christmas Ever!!!!"