Christmas Morning 2011

One of the big things she really wanted.

She also got a lot of educational, sciencey type stuff.

She wanted this so bad when we saw it in a booth at Harvest Homecoming, but I kept telling her no, and then I had the ladies help me buy it when she wasn't looking. It was all done right under her nose and she had no clue. I'm just glad she remembered she wanted it when she opened it!

She can't wait to do this one!

This is a really cool Eco Dome thing where you go out and collect bugs to put in there so you can observe them. I just made her promise me, no spiders!

Sydney got this for me and Chris. I think my mother was involved. I don't know. It's a Lenox rooster. It's got gold talons and a gold beak.

And this is the mess I was left with. Had to clean that up last night and today so we can do Christmas again with my family tonight. I'm sure there will be more pics to come from that!

Playing Dress Up

Last Thursday, Chris and I went to his office Christmas party. The invitation said "semi-formal" so we got all gussied up. We clean up nice, heh? Despite the fact that neither of us was excited about this party, we had a good time. I got to meet his cohort from up in Indy and she and I really hit it off. We're looking forward to the Indy office party coming in January. Where we can wear jeans!

And this is Sydney's Christmas dress. Too bad I couldn't have made this purchase before her Christmas program at school, but I didn't realize it was going to be so dressy. Anyway, she wore this to church last week and they had the youth group Christmas party where they watched the new Veggie Tales movie, did crafts, played games, ate lunch and then went caroling at 2 local nursing homes. She LOVED it!

So, Christmas is now just 3 days away and I was off work today, so we cleaned a bit, and played a bit. It was nice to be home with her.