Christmas!

This year we:
gave ourselves the gift of home security (yep, we fired a bb gun at soda cans in our basement - redneck fun - what of it):

 Made sugar cookes:

 And eagerly waited for them to be ready:

 Cut the cookies:

 And decorated the cookies:

 Or didn't decorate the cookies - this kid was our quality control, she mostly just ate the cookies:

 Got our teeth knocked out in a family brawl Lost our first tooth:

 Wrote sweet, but menacing looking notes to the Tooth Fairy:

(His illustrations of himself with his teeth remind me of the clown from Stephen King's IT. Am I alone here?)

Then, magically, it was Christmas morning so we crowned one among us 'The Queen of Everything' (or perhaps she crowned herself that? we may never know...):

We were so excited when presents suddenly appeared under the tree where there had been nothing before (*side note: we decided not to put gifts under the tree because Sammie was an unwrapping risk, but seeing how amazed our kids were on Christmas morning, we may make this a new tradition):

 Then we got to business:

 Playing:

 Being awesome:

 Being scared(?) of our gifts:

 Unwrapping presents:

 Swiping the gifts of others:

 And back to more playing:

 And then we ate (and drank) - like, a lot:

It was a great Christmas. Thanks to everyone (especially Justin's dad - who came out and spent a week with us) who helped make it so special for our family!