Merry Christmas! Happy New Year!

Daniel, Abigail and I really enjoyed the Christmas season this year.  Abigail is at a really fun age now to start enjoying the festivities.  She loved having the Christmas tree and lights up.  Every morning she insisted that we turn on the tree and the lights on the mantle.  And throughout the day I would find her looking intently at the tree, touching each light on the string and the ornaments she could reach.  Abigail also got to meet Santa for the first time!

We attended the Christmas Eve service at church and all the kids were given little battery operated candles.  Abigail was enthralled with hers!  It kept her busy most of the service, holding it up in the air or putting it close to something to light up.  On our way home we drove around our neighborhood, oohing and ahhing at all the beautifully lit up houses.

Daniel made pancakes for Christmas morning breakfast and then we opened gifts.  Abigail quickly got the hang of tearing open the wrapping paper and even helped mommy and daddy with unwrapping our gifts.  Later we went to the park.  It was a beautiful warm day in the mid 60's.

December 29th brought our first snowfall of the season.  We only got about 2 inches of snow during the night and then turned to a rain/snow mix.  Abigail and I put on our snow gear and headed out to play in the snow first thing in the morning.  Abigail wasn't too happy to be outside and just stood there saying, no, no, no."  She liked looking at the snow from inside the warm house, though!