Christmas Eve pictures

rocking her new baby doll 

the girls and uncle Mikey

Daddy and Gracie

Mommy and Santa Claire

Gracie kissing Santa

Daddy and Santa Claire

My parents got this Santa outfit for Claire and she passed out all the gifts wearing it.

The girls at my parent's house

Christmas Morning pictures

The girls got their first kitchen from my parents

Daddy trying my first attempt at the Kruis sticky buns

Mommy and Gracie

Claire in her new car from Uncle Chris and Aunt Steff

Opening her stocking in the morning

There was lots of candy in her stocking

Mommy's little Christmas gift by the tree

In her dress up outfit complete with new jewelry

Claire got a princess dress and high heels from her GG

Dreaming of a White Christmas

The girls went crazy for the snow and the timing was perfect, it snowed Christmas morning. This was Gracie's first time in the snow and she seemed pretty unsure of the whole thing. Big sister loved running in it, picking it up, throwing it, and putting against her cheeks.

In front of our home

In the back yard

Making footprints

Gracie and Papi

O Christmas Tree

The Kruis family in front of our Christmas tree

Hannie resting with Aunt Katie

Claire decorating the tree with Daddy

She had more fun taking out all the ornaments and looking at them than she did putting them on the tree

such a helper

Auntie Katie and her girls

Fun with Auntie Katie

Aunt Katie ALWAYS gets the girls to laugh and smile :)

Hannah Banana

Gracie and Aunt Katie

Claire and Aunt Katie

Being crazy

Being silly

Tis the season

We are getting into the Christmas season...finally. Claire is very into Santa this year and was thrilled to see Santa hats in our decorations. She got very creative and decided to put our tree skirt on as a cape with her Santa hat. Once she was decked out she spent the day having Jason and I tell her what we wanted for Christmas. She stopped answering to Claire and wanted to be addressed as Santa. We did our first seasonal craft and headed to my mom's house to make gumdrop trees. It was an easy, inexpensive craft. 99 cents for the gumdrops and the twigs were all free, compliments of a neighbor who had trimmed his trees. Claire and Grace enjoyed eating the gumdrops more than they did putting them on the trees but overall still had a blast. We also went to the mall to see Mrs. Claus and she read, did a puppet show, and lots of dancing with the kids. The girls got free goodie bags and a cookie at the end. Claire was sitting by me but when Mrs. Claus started handing out reindeer antlers she ran up and stayed in the front the rest of the time. It was cute to see her up there participating. She had a great time. Next up, getting our tree this Saturday :)

The big gumdrop tree

Aunt Julia, Hannah, and Aunt Katie

Mommy and girls decorating

Claire was great at getting the gumdrops on

another creation

The gumdrop tree we took home

Claire and Auntie Katie 

Santa Claire

Such a sweet santa girl

Gracie walking around

At the mall with her jingle bell

Being a reindeer

My smiling reindeer