christmas celebrations part one

reading a new book with uncle kirby
telling gg thanks for the awesome tent
camping with uncle kirby
breakfast



peaking out of her new tent
crawling thru the tunnel, with no hesitations what so ever

riding her horsey before church in the wonderful dress granny made for her
pushing her new shopping cart from grandma susie around
hanging with uncle kirby in front of the fire
the family
checking out granny's tree.


we have had several christmas celebrations here, and they were all wonderful. i started using my film camera, so these are just a few of the pictures. it is getting harder and harder to find places that will develop film. i went to walgreens, were i always get my pictures developed, and their machine is broken and they're not sure they're going to fix it. crazy. anyways. we had our first celebration with eric and lori the sunday before christmas. we got to here mom ring her bells, ate a big lunch, and opened presents. it was lots of fun, but i have no photos yet. we celebrated again on christmas eve with our traditional christmas morning, b/c ben had to work christmas day. marley was very excited and santa was more than generous with her. we had more fun watching her, i think, than anything else. kirby flew in the day before and marley remembered him right away. uncle berbee. we had our breakfast tacos, cooked and served in some great new kitchen gear. and then mom did dinner and then off to church. my aunt erin is coming into town later this week, so i imagine we will do christmas again then. kirby and ben took down the tree today. it was a little sad, but we had had it up since the beginning of december. i guess that's long enough. kirby's here for just a few more days. seems like it was just the beginning of december and here it is already almost over. time sure is flying by.
when ben went and got marley out of bed this morning she had taken her jammies completely off, except for the feet. she hadn't managed to get those off yet. and had the biggest proudest grin on her face. very cute. i personally hate new year's eve. i think it is the worst holiday ever. always have. but if you are going to be out celebrating, please be careful. and have fun.
i took a lot of pictures, so there will be more soon....