Friday, December 23, 2011

Christmas 2011


Our beautiful and silly family


All the cousins at Aunty Emily's house


  
                             
Lining up in height order
 

Papa John telling stories

  

Chloe wrote a letter to Santa asking him to come back tomorrow for more cookies.  We were only able to make one kind on Christmas Eve.  She also drew him a map on how to get into the house since we don't have a chimney
     
Chloe was VERY excited to see Santa and his reindeer had eaten the cookies, drank the milk AND tried the seaweed we put out for them. 

So excited to open gifts Christmas morning! 
*note how she is fully dressed*
Chloe absolutely has to do her morning routine
before we can go downstairs for Christmas. 

Trying on her new pajamas, pillow pet, and overalls.  "JUST
what she'd been asking for!!"  She was all smiles.
  

After we opened gifts we started doing some of the fun Christmas Day crafts that Santa had given in Chloes stocking.  I got this amazing photo of her while she was finishing a wooden ornament.

Whenever she spells ornament its "ordamet". 


Thursday, December 22, 2011

Letters with Santa

These are the adorable letters and pictures Chloe left for Santa this year. 


 "Come through the back door.  We got rid of the chimney." 
"Back Door." 
"Front Door, where you are."
"P.S. Walk to the back door." 
"Fried Seaweed.  Yummm"
(The sticky note she left so she could give Santa and the reindeer a taste of seaweed, which she loves.)

By Chloe Rhodes
Come back tomorrow.  There will be gingerbread cookies on the counter.  Please come back tomorrow. 
I love Christmas.  Thank you.  I love you, Santa. 

She was so excited to find this letter from Santa in her stocking with her gifts!!

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Piper Puppy

Here is Piper Puppy eating a cucumber.  She was such a silly little girl, always ready for playtime.