oops. A bit late on this one...

I thought I had posted this slideshow about our decorating for Christmas ages ago but just realized that I had forgotten to do so. Tom and I just took down all our Christmas stuff yesterday so we are far less festive (= We really enjoyed decorating with Sue!

The comments thing is not working on the slideshow for some reason, so the brief description is that Sue joined us (family friend who now lives in the area. YIPPEE!) to make our occasion much more festive.

Layla decorated all her stuffed animals with these extra plastic balls I had. She lined them all up. It was quite funny because I had hardly gotten started and she seemed to get the idea of decorating right away.

Love the photo of the two of them reading - Layla was being a Christmas fairy (=

Pulling the tree out of storage after 2 years....trying to find a way to get all the dust off of it!

Ryan has 2 bottom teeth now (beginning of December)

I made apple cider both to drink and for the smell - something we always did at our home.

In terribly UN-American Christmas fashion, we had Indian sandwiches for dinner that night (=