Day 358: Hurry up Santa!

The cookies and milk have been put out for Santa, with an apple for Rudolph. The new Christmas pajamas are on. Santa's progress has been followed on the NORAD site. All that's left to do is go to sleep!

Day 357: That should do it

It took about two hours, but I got all the kids' presents wrapped tonight. The pile is about 50% bigger than last year. I think we overdid it a little. It will be wonderful to see their faces when they open them though.

Day 356: Building work complete

Today Elizabeth and I decorated our gingerbread house. It was a kit, but we still had lots of fun doing it. Her favorite part is licking the icing off her fingers!

Day 355: Working hard on Daddy's Christmas card

The kids made Christmas cards for Daddy today. Elizabeth did a nice drawing on hers, then added stickers and decorated it with glitter glue. Edward only wanted one marker. Note than he managed to mark his face in the process.

Day 354: Kishka's worn out from all the Christmas preparations

Oh to be a cat.

Day 353: My pretty tree

I really like how my Christmas tree looks at night when the room lights are off. I had trouble capturing that in a picture, but this is not bad.

Day 352: Christmas photo. Done.

This is our annual Christmas photo. I do it myself, and we always sit in front of the tree. This is the photo I will put in all our Christmas cards this year. I really like how it turned out. Everyone is looking at the camera and smiling. Technically, Elizabeth took this, as she was holding the remote shutter release!

Side note - I got the dress Elizabeth is wearing from Goodwill for about $7 :)