Christmas/New Year's

Merry (belated) Christmas! I slacked off this year and didn't do a family Christmas letter. It got so close to the holiday that I was thinking maybe I'd make it a New Year's letter but that didn't happen either. Maybe next year. It also has to do with the fact that I didn't get our family pictures done this year. So our last family photo was taken when Piper was 5 months old. I'm sure our parents are anxious for an updated photo. I know I am. This year I even had the outfits picked out and everything for the girls. Oops.

Our Christmas was fantastic. Santa came, ate our fudge and drank the milk that the girls left out, left the stockings filled (too bad he couldn't remember that Calista's stocking was the purple one and not the blue one...oops) and even left some presents under the tree. Even though the girls were threatened (more than once) that if they didn't start to behave they wouldn't get gifts from Santa, I guess they made up for it somehow because he did come. Here's the proof.

Here's Téa with a huge box of coloring stuff.
Calista scored this year. She got a bike that she's wanted forever and she got a kid-sized guitar. She's told lots of people she wants to be a rock star when she grows up.
Piper's favorite gift so far is the baby doll that Grandma Randall gave her. Here she is trying to paint her toes with the nail polish the girls got in their stocking. I don't know how she knows what to do with it. I usually have to wait until she's asleep to paint nails.

We were lucky enough to have Grandma Randall stay with us for all of Christmas vacation. She even babysat for us New Year's Eve so Mark and I could play games at his sister's house to ring in the new year. We are becoming wimps, though. The clock barely struck midnight and we headed home straight to bed. Maybe when the kids learn to sleep in we might stay up later. The day after New Year's my nephew, Nicolas was baptized so it was yet another excuse to get together with family and eat, play games, eat some more, play more games. I was introduced to a new fun game called Mason's. I only played it once but I loved it. Maybe it's because I won. Hmm... Happy New Year everyone. I hope you all were free of pink eye. Did I forget to mention that each kid had pink eye during the break? Twice? And we feel terrible because we gave it to Grandpa Randall.