Merry Christmas

Christmas was a little different for us this year - which I guess is to be expected this year. 

We began the celebration on Christmas Eve with a birthday party for Jesus at church.  It was a church service just for the kids.  Sean gave the message, and they sang some favorite songs followed by birthday cake. 

After a brief dinner at home, we went back to church for Christmas Eve service.  The girls were real troopers and crashed when we got home.  I finished wrapping presents while Sean helped out at the late service.  It was quite a busy day for us.

On Christmas we spent the morning at home, then headed over

to celebrate with some of our Fishers Family. 

 It was great - the girls felt right at home, and I enjoyed getting to know them a little better.  We ended the day tired and happy.

Birthday Party for Jesus

Kaitlyn's preschool threw a very fun birthday party for Jesus on Thursday.   The kids were so cute, and even sang us some songs.  This time we have a video from our camera - which means it's a little shaky, but super cute!
Video of Kaitlyn singing

Our Tree :-)

After much deliberation over getting an artificial or real tree, we finally went to Home Depot and selected a nice "Kaitlyn sized" tree.  We love it!

Labels for Education

Kaitlyn's school signed up for Campbell's Labels for Education of which I am the "coordinator" for this year.  If you would like to help support her school, please clip and send me the UPC codes from the Campbells, V8, Pepperidge Farm, Swanson, Prego, or you can see List of Products that participate from their website.  The logo is the creepy Campbell's kid with a graduation cap over a circular sign that says labels for education.  It's small and you can find it next to the UPC on the box or can.  You could also just see a rectangular graphic simply with Labels for Education and an apple.

Thanks!

The Amazing Christine

Our little Christine has decided to try everything at once.  She is currently working on crawling off her belly, pulling up on something other than our hands (the diaper bag, laundry basket, her bouncy chair ...)  We have a gated area that we've affectionately named the Christine Cage which pretty much covers our entire living room. 

Christine is also getting better at eating Cheerios - less than half end up on the floor now - and loves her sippy cup.  She just figured out to swallow the water instead of letting it fall down her chin. 

She's such a beautiful addition to our family.  I just can't imagine life without our little sunshine!  Sometimes I watch my girls playing with their Daddy and am just amazed at how God has blessed us.  Sean and I just agreed that in our adult life we've never been as happy as we are right now.

Kaitlyn's Christmas Program

At the first Advent service, Kaitlyn's preschool sang for the congregation.  They were so incredibly cute.  At the beginning of the show, a very excited boy behind Kaitlyn was bouncing around.  She didn't like that, so for the first song turned around and gave him a dirty look. 
There's a small chance we'll get a link to the video on here... but for now here's a picture.  First one to find Kaitlyn gets a prize.

Snow in Houston?

Yes folks, it snowed in Houston.  It mostly melted when it hit the ground, but for a couple hours we had a beautiful white shower to gaze at.

Christmas by Candlelight

Last week I had the pleasure of attending a great event put on by the "Lady Fishers".  What I thought was going to be a festive looking room with yummy desserts and pleasant (kid free) conversation turned out to be so much more.  Each circular table was decorated to the nines by a pair of women or one woman.  I didn't have a chance to snap pictures of all the tables, but I've included the decoration on my table.  There were no paper plates or cups - they actually brought their Christmas china and dishes from home to go with the theme of the table.  One had a christmas tree in the middle.  We were entertained by the Decibelles who are a group of retired women in matching sparkly red sweaters adorned with large silver pointsettia coursages who sing Chrstmas songs acapella.  They were a hoot.  It was a great evening away from the house, with some much needed girl time!