Christmas Day!

 Santa came!!

 Ben in his new jambes

 Opening gifts!

Even though we miss our family we had a great Christmas!  The kids got everything they wanted and had fun opening everything!  We spent the day hanging around the apartment and playing with their new toys and getting ready for vacation. 

We hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas!  We miss you all!!

Christmas Eve

 Our last day with Jingles, she left a note telling the kids they were allowed to kiss her good-bye!

Decorating cookies for Santa

 Ben taste testing

 Good-bye Jingles...see you next year!

 We hung our Santa key outside so Santa could get into the apartment.

Cookies for Santa and carrots for the reindeer.  The girls also wrote Santa letters.

Kenzie's new smile

Kenzie lost her first tooth on December 19, 2012.  

She asked me to wiggle it and to both of our surprise it came out in my hands!!  

The tooth fairy made it safely to our house that night!!

More Elf Fun!

 December 17th Jingles was in the shower

 December 18th Drinking hot chocolate in the kitchen

 Kenzie & Hannah's gingerbread houses

 December 19th it "snowed" in our house so Jingles made snowmen!

 December 20th she wrote "5 more days!" on the window!

 December 21st Buzz to the rescue

 December 22nd pretending to be Makenzie

December 23rd she wrote "2 more days" in toothpaste on the bathroom mirror!

Mother/Daughter Cooking Class

 Kenzie & I went to a cooking class on Saturday, it was a Mother/daughter event with the Girl Scouts!

 We made Chinese pumpkin dumplings

 and sugar cookies

 Our Daisy's that came along!

Emilia, Lindsay, Wilma, Kenzie, Angel, Gabby & Carrie

Silly faces!

We had a lot of fun baking treats!

The many adventures of Jingles the Elf!

 December 4th, hanging in the doorway

December 5th, floating with balloons

 December 6th, having a midnight snack

 December 7th, She thought we needed more decorations, or as Hannah would say "decorates"

 December 8th, she turned the kids into Rudolph!

 December 9th, reading the Story of Christmas to the other toys

 Kenzie drew Jingles a picture...

 ...and wrote her a note.

 So o December 10th Jingles wrote Kenzie back

 Kenzie's note from Jingles

 December 11th, she was in the lamp

 Grandma Karen sent the girls coloring books and had all of the family color a picture in it so Jingles didn't want to be left out so on December 12th she colored a picture too!

 December 13th she got stuck in the curtains

 December 14th she watched Christmas movies

 December 15th she wanted to go to school too, too bad it was Saturday!

On December 16th she brought treats!

Only 9 days left!

Jingles...

 November 29th Jingles brought a note from Santa because the girls were being a little sassy!

 November 30th Jingles drew on the kids picture (they thought this was hilarious!) 

 December 1st Princess lessons!

 December 2nd Zip-lining!

December 3rd just hanging around!