Christmas Morning

Anarya loved the stuffed animals she got!

Joel added this monkey to her stocking. The scarf? She loves to drape things around her neck. I didn't want it too long so I knotted it.

Shinara never asks for much. This year she had a list but about two days before Christmas she decided she'd like a football. Santa brought her a personal DVD player. She wasn't too thrilled at first, but quite appreciates it now!

Christmas Day part II

Let the opening of the gifts begin!

I made Tersa a hardbound book of a lot of her 16th Birthday pictures.

Anarya

loved her

baby doll!!

I took pictures of the baby mainly since it was really the first time she participated in the opening of presents and I took the one of Tersa so I could capture her reaction to that particular gift. Sorry Mardi, Keddi and Shar, as usual, it's all about the baby!

Christmas Eve

I finally started wrapping two days before Christmas and Anarya didn't really mess with the gifts. I wish I had tried it out earlier! We had some issues this year with the lights going out at the bottom of the tree. Next year I will have to buy lights to string just down there. It was bad enough that it was only decorated 1/2 way. Only lit 1/2 way?!?! Unacceptable.

The stockings I am sure she wouldn't leave alone so they were not put up until today. So sad, it's one of the decorations I like most. Oh well, Christmas will come around again next year.

The girls haul. Joel got a nice briefcase and I got a Circuit machine.

Keddi, Tersa, Mardi, Shinara and Anayra

Ethel M. Chocolate Factory

Joel decided that it would be "fun" to go to Ethel M. Chocolate Factory tonight. It was very cold and when we got there, there were hundreds of people milling about. You could hardly walk down the paths and stopping to take a picture was difficult.

Ethel M. has a cactus "garden". It's what they decorated with lights. I thought it a bit weird, but lights are lights and they were beautiful!

This was one of Tersa's favorites.

Shinara's Glasses

Shinara has new glasses. She picked this pair because the sides have blue camo. There was another pair that had a

thick, peacock blue frame and they were gorgeous on her. Made her eyes pop out at ya. But she liked these. And they are cute!