Hi everyone! I hope all of you had as wonderful of a time celebrating Christmas with your families this week as we did! We started on Christmas Eve with the children's live nativity service at Grace Covenant. There were real live goats and chickens and even people dressed up as Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus, the shepherds, and the wise men! Liam and I got to go and sit up front to watch it all with the other kids, and we did great! We both sat quietly and watched the whole time. It was so amazing to see the Christmas story of Jesus's birthday!
Family picture in the manger after church
Playing in the nativity after service with our cousin James
Mommy can't believe how fast I'm growing up!
After church, we went home to have a yummy family dinner of lasagna and birthday cake for Jesus. Yummy! Then we fixed a plate of cookies and a carrot for Santa and his reindeer and headed up to bed so he could come!
Cookies for Santa and a carrot for his reindeer
Christmas morning we slept in until 7, which is really late for Liam! We woke up and headed downstairs to see if Santa came, and guess what?! He did! He brought me the Frozen robe that I asked for AND a Frozen nightgown, too! He brought Liam a really cool car track. He also brought us lots of goodies in our stockings, which I was super excited about opening! Check it out!
Liam loves his new car track!
My Frozen robe is so soft and cozy!
After stockings, Nana and Papa came over and we had monkey bread for breakfast and then opened presents at home from Mommy and Daddy. I got some really cool and pretty things. I think my favorite is a fancy pink dress with gold sparkles. Liam's favorite is a toy that goes on the fridge where he can build all different kinds of cars, trucks, and boats with magnets. He also really likes the soft Spiderman doll that I got for him. Mommy and Daddy opened presents, too. Liam and I got Daddy some awesome Star Wars legos.
After presents at our house, it was time to head over to Nana and Papa's house to open more presents with Mommy's whole family and eat a delicious dinner that Daddy and Nana cooked. Nana and Papa spoiled me a little bit at Christmas this year! Nana made me a beautiful Cinderella dress from the new Cinderella movie, and Papa made me an awesome closet for all of my dress-up clothes! AND they gave me a brand new doll with her very own matching Cinderella dress and LOTS of other clothes! Her name is Sydney Lee, and I LOVE her. Liam got some more really cool things, too. He got a drum full of all kinds of different music toys that are super noisy! Mommy and Daddy said that toy has to stay in our basement. We got to see our family open the presents that we got for them, too, which was really special. We drew names this year (except for Nana & Papa), and I got Uncle Chris. I also helped make a special heart-shaped stepping stone for Nana's garden with Liam's and my footprints on it. I loved watching everyone open the gifts I got for them!
Ready to open presents
I was so excited to open my beautiful Cinderella dress!
Check out the dress-up closet Papa made me.
Sydney Lee and me in our matching dresses
Thank you, Nana!!!
Liam loves playing his drum!
2 silly boys crashed on the couch after presents
Hugs with fun Uncle Chris
Hanging out on the couch with Aunt Meredith and Uncle Chris
After presents we ate our delicious dinner and red velvet souffles for dessert. Yum yum yum! Then it was time to get in our jammies and head home for bed after a busy and super fun day. We were really good all day long, but we were definitely tired! We even slept in until 7:30 this morning! Now we're really excited because GiGi and Daideo and Sean are coming tomorrow, and we get to have one more Christmas celebration with them! I can't wait!!!
Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Life has been pretty busy! We're getting ready for another baby brother at my house in February. Plus, I've been getting busier and busier with activities. I took a soccer class at school this fall, which was really fun. I've been going to Sunday School and Awakening to Worship (that's what we call our children's service) every week, and I even sang with the children's choir for the first time at our Christmas concert last week. My very favorite thing, though, is still dance! I have ballet class every Thursday night at Crescendo Conservatory, and I absolutely love it. We found out about Crescendo last year at the Nutcracker Tea Party, and then we moved in April and our new house is really close to their studio, so I started going. So of course, we had to go back this year to the Nutcracker Tea Party again and see some of the big kids from my studio dance!
Grace, my favorite big girl from my ballet studio, got to play the Sugar Plum Fairy!
Posing with one of the helpers from my class
I loved this angel costume.
The snow queen
Lots of my friends came to the show, too, including my best friend from church, Abigail, and her sister Olivia!
I absolutely loved the show this year! I decided that when I get bigger, I'm going to be in it. I think I would like to be a flower and dance in the Waltz of the Flowers, but we'll see! For now, I just have to keep practicing!
