December: Alice Turned 2 and Christmas!

Okay, so this wasn't taken on her birthday but I had to post this for Neal's mom. She made the dress and gave it to her around Thanksgiving. She just looks so cute in the picture I had to put in on for her to see.

Ali's cake. I attempted to make a ladybug cake. She seemed to love it so that's good.

Brothers helping with the present opening.

A jacket and skirt she got for her birthday.

This was a great present. A garage sale find. We just had to buy a new battery for it.
She loves it.

I just love this picture of the kids. This was the Sunday before Christmas and they are all wearing clothes that my mom gave them as part of a 10 days of Christmas she did for all of us. They are all smiling, looking at the camera, and I love that Max has his hand on Alice's shoulder.

We then tried to take a picture of the whole family. This was the best one. Oh well, at least there is a good one of the kids.

As you can see I didn't take a whole lot of Christmas pictures. I forgot to pull it out Christmas morning. This is a picture of us on Christmas Eve. They boys all got pjs with monkeys on them and Alice and I got strawberry themed ones.
We did do a nativity scene reenactment and I filmed that. Its pretty funny so maybe I'll have to post that but that's about it for Christmas. It was so much fun and we always feel so fortunate for all the gifts we receive both of a spiritual nature and material at this season. We feel so blessed. I always want Christmas day to last forever.