Holiday Activities

The girls enjoyed putting up the tree.
The kids made most of the ornaments this year. Anna made lots of candy canes out of baked play dough.
Mary was a shepherd for the Christmas party at Grandma and Grandpa's house. Anna was "nussin'."
The kids got a tour of Grandpa's airplane. Anna enjoyed being copilot. Mary was a little nervous that we would take off and mostly stayed in the back.
We had fun making Crystal (Frosty's snow wife) in the backyard.
Austin cut out several gingerbread cookies himself.

Christmas joke from Mary

This morning while I was slicing a banana, Mary asked, "Mom, what's a bananta?" I laughed and replied, "I don't know what a bananta is."

She waited a minute and then announced, "A bananta is a banana that Santa Claus eats!"

Family picture at Grandma and Grandpa's

Merry Christmas!

A little déjà vu

I climbed up onto my parents' counter as a baby to sample some pumpkin pie.
Yesterday, Mary said, "We should make pumpkin pies!" So we did. We ate one pie and left the second on the stove. Today I heard a funny slurping noise coming from the kitchen. Here's what I found:

Mary initially tried to clean up the mess, but when she saw I was just taking pictures, she joined the party.
I'm still laughing about this one.

Visit with Santa

The girls were very excited to meet Santa at the ward Christmas party. Their favorite part was when the elf gave them a rainbow candy cane.

We love Anna's hair!

Before:After:
Ready to go!

Anna's photo shoot

Here's our little angel.