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| A fun date night mixed with a little Christmas shopping (without the kids!!). |
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| Jameson's first "concert". During one of my Mops meetings, the kids were brought in and sang Christmas carols to us with a little bit of jingle bell action ;) Jameson did great! |
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| Checking out some Christmas present ideas at Barnes and Noble. I love going to this place with the kids when it's a rainy day or slow afternoon at home. I can get a coffee and the kids love the train set up as well as picking out other toys to look at and books to read. |
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| We finally found time for baking Christmas cookies! |
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| Hugging the mall Christmas tree while we wait to see Santa. |
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| I think Jameson is trying to give Santa a "thumbs-up" as in he's been good this year. As you can see, J just hadn't mastered it yet. |
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| No fear of Santa for Jameson, just a full on hug! When Santa asked Jameson what he most wanted for Christmas, Jameson replied "Chocolate coins!". I'm still not sure where that wish came from, but hopefully they are this easy every year...hehe. Dear sweet Ava isn't pictured because we are holding her. She was very afraid of Santa and being that we visited Santa in our new mall atrium where there is quite the echo, we decided to hold her back. |
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| The Christmas tree lot near our house - not our original plan, but we got a tree and that was the most important thing. We planned to cut one down in the mountains, which we've done once before, but with all the housing "stuff" we just didn't have the time to get away and make it happen. Next year! |
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| Watching the tree's truck get trimmed. Jameson loved the chain saw. I'm pretty sure we overpaid for the tree, but at this point in the season (pretty much last minute) we were at the whim of the tree lot. |
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| Decorating our Christmas tree in the house for the final time. Jameson is putting on Dad's first baby ornament - a silver rattle. |
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| A Christmas craft with Jameson. They are both his trees (with a little help from me - he'd tell me where he wanted something and I'd help with the smallest pieces or with the glue, etc.). He did the one on the right side first and then after learning that he could put them anywhere on the page, he spread them everywhere. |
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| Merry Christmas Eve!!! We went to mass this special night and followed it up with a Christmas Eve fondue dinner with friends. |
