The Wonder and Joy of Christmas...

Christmas is so much fun when looking through the eyes of a child.

Our house at Christmas

Keith worked so hard this year putting up our outdoor decorations so I had to showcase them on the blog. Thanks for your hard work Keith! :-)

Cake Pops

I found this recipe on a website that I follow (red velvet cake mixed with cream cheese icing and dipped in chocolate) and WOW - these cake pops are good! They are super time consuming, but oh so fun to eat. :-) Ella and I enjoyed working on them together in the kitchen.
Working on them the night before...

Voila! The finished product...

Christmas with the Williams Family

We celebrated Christmas with Keith's parents on Monday evening. Ella was a big helper this year with handing out presents and helping unwrap them for everyone...heehee. :-) Although we were missing Kevin who had to stay in Texas this year (we missed you a lot Uncle Kev!), we still had a lot of fun and made some new memories. :-)


Her very own karaoke machine...she loves it!


I had fun playing with the colored lights on their tree...

Annual Christmas Dinner with Heads, Stinsons, Dudleys, etc...

We have a get together with dear family friends every Christmas. This year it was a big shindig with lots of extended family coming as well...FUN! Emily, who was pregnant in these pictures, delivered a sweet baby boy just one week later (you can see pictures from his birth here). We love all these people and are so thankful to call them friends!









The girls at our house before heading over to my parents...

Gingerbread houses...

...never look at pretty in real life as they do in the box. Still fun to make though!!

Catching up...

Beware...lots of photos in multiple posts to follow!






Did I already blog this photo? Can't remember...

Fun with Candy Canes...

Watching our family grow...

I'm pretty sure all of our Christmas cards have arrived now so I wanted to share it on the blog since we unfortunately can't mail one to everyone we would like to.

And here's our cards since 2005 when we were married...I love how our family has grown each year!
2005 (it was a traditional card so this was the photo I put in it):

2006:

2007:

2008:

And some more pictures...

Christmas Lights...

We walked by the nativity one day and saw this...

Ella placed all her Little People in their proper position in the nativity...

Storytime with Ella...she loves to stack all her books up "just so"...


Holiday self-portrait...

Whoa...crazy hair! :-)

Lately...

Here's what we've been up to lately...

Eating carrots...

Enjoying early Christmas presents...LOVE my new camera...

Acting silly...

Having lazy mornings...

Snuggling with Nana...

Cheering on the Crimson Tide...

Looking at beautiful fall color...