Merry Christmas!

Favorite Christmas traditions

Daddy reading The Night Before Christmas on Christmas Eve, in addition to the nativity story from the Bible. 

And everyone in their Christmas pajamas.

Another Christmas Eve tradition Bert and I started, Chinese take out for dinner. No pictures of that.

Not a great picture, but Emma's 1st grade Christmas program was so darling I had to document it. They recited The Night Before Christmas and sang some really cute songs. Parents bought fabric and a few wonderful mom's sewed all the kids nightcaps. Emma's on the front row making faces. 

Snowfall

Jacob's first time playing in the snow. This time last year he was still crawling, so we didn't do a lot of snow play. 

He was pretty excited about it until he realized how cold it was.

And really didn't like it after Kaylie threw a snowball in his face.