Christmas Vacation

We have really been enjoying our Christmas vacation!  We've been lucky enough to spend the past week without work or any of the typical stresses of life, and still have a couple of precious days left.  Macy had a great Christmas, here are a few pictures.

Unwrapping an early gift in front of the tree

Hanging with cousins Isa and Zia

In her Christmas dress!

Some major Christmas morning bed head!

Scoping out the stocking goodies

Macy loooves the moon and is always looking for it outside...she did not have the book Goodnight Moon, so I thought it was pretty fitting.  It's her new favorite bedtime book!

Her biggest gift...a Dora kitchen from Boppy and Dzia Dzia

Hanging with more cousins

Eating cookies with Georgia and Dzia Dzia

Looove this picture of Macy and Mumma!

 

Now we're on to general Christmas break activities...watching one of her new DVD's snuggling with her stuffed animals

 

Her "this camera flash is bright!" face

Rocking her new sneaks and Spartan Girl shirt for the Spartan's bowl game day!

Macy and Georgia got matching sleds for Christmas from my sister so Mike and I took them for their first sledding adventure at Gallup Park!

 

Happy New Year everyone!  We are hoping 2013 is as awesome as 2012 was!

Ho Ho Ho

It's been about a month since the last blog post again.  We had a nice and fun thanksgiving weekend, but unfortunately I wasn't very good at taking pictures!  This weekend Santa paid a visit to Port Austin so we went to see him.  It was a cute event, but Macy was not so keen on Santa.  She was not willing to sit in his lap!  We had fun anyway though!

 

Writing Macy's letter to Santa

Macy has gotten pretty into coloring over the last couple of months.  She was much more into coloring on the letter than writing it.  Good thing she had Mumma to help her!

 

Meeting Santa...a little unsure

This was the reaction we got shortly after trying to sit her in Santa's lap

Willing to go along with it as long as Mumma holds her!

 

We did a photo shoot today to get some pictures to send on our Christmas cards.  It consisted of a 97-cent roll of wrapping paper from Wal-Mart and Macy in a cute outfit.  I had these Pinterest-inspired visions of draping her in Christmas lights but it turns out that Macy is TERRIFIED of Christmas lights.  I have no idea why but whenever I tried to get them near her she screamed.  So, we settled for a strand of sparkly garland.  These aren't the best shots, because I'm saving those for the Christmas cards but here are a couple...

What's going on here?

Shouting her hew favorite phrase:  "Up! Up!"

This gives you an idea of the reaction the Christmas lights got

Whoops...backdrop malfunction!

 

We are looking forward to the Christmas season.  We think Macy will be more into it this year, where last year she was too little to really have any idea what was going on or have much interest in her gifts.  More pictures are certain to come!