Sunday, December 25, 2011

Christmas Day

Christmas 2011 was a wonderful day spent with family. It's been so fun to start our family traditions. This was a colored light year, with some white interspersed.
Santa brought Madeline an easel and ball pit.


Still loving boxes.....
I gave Mark moose nutmeg glasses from Christmas Vacation.
The car is all loaded up to make our 2 stops.

Happy Birthday, Jesus! Merry Christmas!!

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Christmas Eve

We headed off to church Christmas Eve. We were able to attend the 7pm service but I think this was our last year of adult services. Next year we will be at the 3 or 5 Children's Services. A new phase in life. I guess in 13 years we can return to the 11pm Candlelight Communion- my favorite!

*Someone had put little fingerprints on my camera. The next photos should be better.





















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Monday, December 12, 2011

Holiday Happenings

Just some random shots. I have determined I am not good about having the camera handy to capture memories. I will try to do better.


I headed off to visit Sarah in DC for a long weekend. We had a blast and this is the only picture I took from the weekend! We had tickets for the dress rehearsal of Christmas in Washington. It was so fun! There were all kinds of choirs plus Jennifer Hudson, Justin Bieber, Celo Green, The Band Perry and all hosted by Conan O'Brien, my fav! I meant to try to catch the actual one on TV but forgot to search for it to record it. Oh, well.

Madeline and I take a music/dance class. Here are some friends from our class.
Madeline is helping Daddy with the decorations.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Kinsey Family Tree Farm

We headed off to Kinsey Farms to find the Macdonald family Christmas tree. This was a really neat place in North Georgia. We plan to make it a family tradition!

Roasting smores. MMMM.


Madeline was excited to be there!



She loves marshmallows so I was expecting her to like the smores. She wasn't a fan of toasted marshmallows.








"Where is our perfect tree?"


You could chop your own down or go with a precut, which is what we did this year. We also went to the petting farm. We had to pass on the tractor ride but we will do it next year.