Christmas Pictures

A local picture place was having a deal on photos, so I took the kids in to get some pictures in their Christmas outfits. Tori loved an excuse to wear her Christmas dress and spent the whole time dancing around the photo place while we waited. It went pretty well, except that James really did not want me to put him down and was pretty upset at the beginning. At the end he finally warmed up a bit and I love his and Tori's smiles in their individual pictures.

Merry Christmas

These are a few pictures of Tori and James in their Christmas outfits the Sunday before Christmas. Tori thought her dress was very fancy wanted to wear it all the time.

Here are Tori and James on Christmas morning. John had to work at the hospital on Christmas morning so I kept the kids happy up in our room having breakfast in bed and watching all of the classic Christmas cartoons we recorded off TV until John made it home at around 9:30am. It was the first time I can remember being showered and ready before opening presents on Christmas morning- which I actually thought was pretty nice.

These pictures are of Tori and James with their presents from Santa in front of the tree. As you can tell, the airplane and tiana doll were both a big hit.

Below is James in the new jumper he got for Christmas (probably one of my favorite Christmas presents :)).

Christmas Eve Party & Christmas dress

One of our friends here had a Christmas eve party for all of those that don't have family in the area for the holidays. It's a lot of fun and the kids love dressing up to do the live nativity while we read the Christmas story and sing carols. Tori was very excited this year because she got to be Mary and she took the part very seriously (most of the time). Above is a picture of a bunch of the kids and parents during part of the story and below is a picture of Tori with some of the "angels" - Lauren, Anne and Anna.

Below is a picture of Tori and Harrison - "Mary and Joseph" during the Christmas story.

Here are a couple of pictures of Tori with the "Shepard" - Megan. Megan and Tori have played together since they were 8 months old and usually greet each other lately as "there is my bestest friend ever".

After the nativity was done Tori and Megan played Christmas songs together on the piano and were in their own little world for quite some time.

Below are some pictures of Tori in her Christmas dress right before church on the Sunday before Christmas. She was thrilled about wearing her "very fancy dress".