Merry Christmas (2011)! — The Lipscomb Adventures

We have had a wonderful month full of Christmas celebrations, but nothing beats the actual big day. And it always makes it extra special for me when not only is our own little family together, but my parents get to join in the fun! :) Good food and good company...and NO ONE got really sick this year (Brian had a head cold). Gabriel finally broke his Christmas illness streak it looks like! WOOO!!!

Gabriel started out by leaving milk and cookies, along with a little letter for Santa. Below is his letter...his signature is on the left. :)

Our tree was giving me fits this year. It's headed to the trash. No more pre-lit trees for us anymore. Aside from all of the lights out...you can see that Santa was VERY good to us, as were the grandparents.

Please pardon my crazy hair. That's what happens in the morning when your hair is short. (I'm pretty sure I'm growing it out long again as I'm in need of some ponytail time. lol) Notice Lady Bug Girl by Lorelai's feet. Don't want her to miss out on the Christmas fun.

I was terrible about getting pictures taken this year. :( I miss out on all of us in our Christmas finery. Lorelai looked so precious in her little dress, and I even got a special top for my reading at church. Oh well. I also missed out on lots of opportunities for pictures of my parents with the kids. Bummer!!!! I also didn't get a shot of my parents opening their quilts from me for Christmas. I hope they'll take some of them with the quilts at home. :) If you want to see the quilts hop on over to The Cozy Pumpkin as I finally am able to have the pictures up there.

My parents had a good time with the kids...

And yes...a little work was done as well:

But, we got out and had some fun as well. We headed out to the Science Museum. Much more fun than it was the first time. This had something to do with sound frequencies.

Playing in the giant treehouse. Gabriel was really enjoying the insanely tall slide.

Lorelai was enjoying building with blocks:

We saw model trains (as well as full sized trains and some planes, bicycles from from old to knew)...

We went to the builder area...made a garden, worked on building a "house", crawled through a tunnel, laid some floor tiles...

painted some walls...

All in all a great visit! Over much too quickly as always. I think the kids are beginning to get used to goodbyes though. While Gabriel was not happy about his Grandparents departure...he had recovered by the I returned from the airport. We look forward to Grandma Wood's visit in April! :) And are happy that after a busy few months things are going to be calming down a bit here.