Christmas Chaos!

Our Christmas always starts early and stretches for a full week!  Chaos!  But the best kind of chaos!  This year had some new, exciting adventures since my Trista is such a big girl now!  First off was a tea at her dance studio with the Sugar Plum Fairy!  This was a fun experience for me and Trista to share!

Trista insisted on wearing her wings so she was a fairy too!

Another first was Trista's school program on December 15th!  I was so excited to see her sing, but was a little disappointed in the organization of the evening!  However, my sweet little girl looked adorable and loved the singing so it was still great to watch!

This is the only great pic we really got since we couldn't get close enough for the performance!

Next up was the Dell family Christmas on December 18th....when the girls get to see some cousins that they don't see too often!

My little musicians enjoying Aunt Deb's piano!

The following day, we had our daycare Christmas at Melanie's house!  Always fun to see all the kids together and enjoying presents!  I am thankful every day for such a wonderful, loving house for my children to go to while Justin and I!

Trista and Finn - best pic of the happy little couple!

Marina and Ryan - Trista says they are boyfriend and girlfriend now too!

Marina and Kaeleigh

After these festivities, it's wait time!  And it has been a long wait this year!  Trista is so much more aware of the time and has been following her advent calendar very carefully....counting every day to see how many days are left until Christmas!  Here's what we've been up to while we wait...

Painting with/eating chocolate pudding!

Pudding hands!

Aqua Sand - Wierdly, cool stuff!

Trista's Aqua Sand masterpiece!

Gingerbread houses - Marina definitely ate more than she put on, but she loved it!

Today, Christmas Eve has finally come and as of 3:30, we will be off and running for the next few days!  The perfect kind of busy...full of family and fun!