On Monday, Ella spent the day with Garan in their pajamas watching Christmas movies and baking cookies for Santa. You may wonder why I don't make cookies with her myself, especially since I am all about tradition and making memories, but unless you've had my mom's tea cakes you will never understand! ...
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Jingle Bells and Other Songs
During our Sunday evening service, the children's choir sang a few carols for us during praise and worship time. It is so funny to see Ella up there because she is so much younger and so tiny compared to everyone else. She had a momentary moment of shyness before entering the stage, but I think you can see from the photos below that once she saw her sweet family in the audience she got really brave! They sang Joy to the World, Away in a Manger, Silent Night, Jingle Bells and We Wish You a Merry Christmas. She was apparently in the singing mood because after I put her to bed that night, she sang Jingle Bells at the top of her lungs for almost 15 minutes. I think she was trying to ward off sleep, but eventually she gave up! ...
Letter from Santa
Guess who got a letter in the mail from the Big Guy today? ...
Family Christmas… A Little Early
On Saturday we ate candy canes, marveled over new little ones and opened our first present! ...
Tiny Dancer
Thursday night was Ella's last ballet class of the year. Parents and Grandparents got to come in and watch and we all brought Christmas goodies for a holiday party before the Christmas break. You can see in the photo above that Ella lost one of her ballet shoes and we were forced to wear our Sunday shoes instead! Luckily, her Easter shoes still fit, we just swapped out the ribbons for pretty pink ones and nobody seemed to notice. The girls were excited to have us there and it was so funny to watch them dance. They did two Christmas routines and a dance to the Mickey Mouse Club song. Some kids were really free spirited and danced all around. Ella was very focused and checked her feet a hundred times to make sure she was standing in her spot! I think she's really worried about minding ...
PJ Day
On Thursday, Ella and her friends had pajama day at "school" and they all wore their Christmas pjs. It was Kaitlyn's birthday and they celebrated with yummy cupcakes. I loved flipping through the pictures of them playing in their pjs... so cute. This isn't everybody, but I loved how funny everybody's faces looked in this one. ...
Christmas in the Park
A few weeks before Thanksgiving, Kamin took us to Linn Park for a family photo shoot. They all turned out so beautiful, but I haven't had a chance to share them with you yet! One of them is on our Christmas card, so I'll save that one for later {even though our cards are less than stellar this year, due to a certain little someone}. In the meantime, these are a few of my favorites. Hope you enjoy! Click here to see just how talented our sweet Kamin is. ...
December’s Silent Sunday
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