Our Christmas

Christmas Day this year was a lot of fun. We started shopping early, and the items we picked from Zeke's wishlist turned out to be what he decided he wanted most. He was super excited about his gifts and freely gave out hugs and told us thank you. 

Nora was a little harder to shop for because she doesn't really have a wishlist yet, but we did pretty well with her gifts also. She has her own big talking Cars car now and that's exciting for her.

They both have enjoyed Zeke's new Hot Wheels track! We knew Zeke would love it, but Nora has loved it too. 

Such a cute picture of Christmas night at Grandma Carlile's, too bad his eyes are closed but I still like it :)

Nora got an Angry Bird pillow.... oh my goodness she has been so excited about it. We also got an Angry Birds board game and it's hard to keep those birds out of her hands!

Gingerbread Boy and Girl

We made a special effort to go to the gingerbread house festival this year because both kids are really into gingerbread men. Zeke has talked about gingerbread men in school, and one of Nora's favorite book is a counting book involving gingerbread men.

 

As it turns out, they cared a whole lot more about the gingerbread men than the gingerbread houses.

 



We did see some houses, although Zeke didn't stop to look at most of them, he just walked by.



 

But the highlight of the trip was the gingerbread cutouts. So cute, and Nora kept going back for more.

 



Nora's Hair

I love Nora's hair, it's gotten so cute and long enough to pull back into ponytails! She loves her hairbows (the blue one with white stars is her favorite). 

Our Shepherd

Our ward's Christmas party included a nativity program. The primary kids dressed as angels and shepherds and they sat around the holy family and sang three songs. Zeke was so excited to be a shepherd, and his quick costume turned out great. If you look close, you can see that he even has a sheep!