Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!! I hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas. Ours was amazing. The family time was awesome and many memories were made. It was so fun reading Christmas books and telling Adelynn the Christmas story. She liked it best when we acted it out with her Little People nativity! What an awesome gift we were, and still are, given with our salvation through Jesus Christ.

Adelynn learned the motions to "Away in a Manger." She is always amazing me with what she is capable of doing. Needless to say, being home these two weeks have been just awesome. We have had such great play time. One Christmas vacation goal was to "re-do" the basement which meant nothing more than moving around some furniture and bringing Adelynn's toys downstairs. Now, though, we have an organized space where we can actually hang out and Adelynn can play with her toys. We've hung out a lot downstairs playing. This is time that I cherish and have enjoyed every last second of over Christmas break.

This post is a little random, but I will work on sticking up more Christmas pictures throughout the next week (or two) here, and I'll add captions.





The Brown/Tasker Christmas party was an ugly sweater party. We decided to go in matching turtlenecks. Mike decided he LOVES turtlenecks and hopes to wear them on a regular basis.

Actually, I'm just kidding because although I think he can pull them off quite well, the turtleneck will only be an ugly sweater party occurrence :). While it was super fun, we definitely were looking the gaudiest, so we may have to tone it down a little next year :).

Adelynn decorated these cookies by herself (mostly) at daycare. Paula is AWESOME and a huge blessing to us and Adelynn (as I have said lots of times before). She does such great things with the kids.

Here is Adelynn (minus the adorable tights) on the day of her daycare Christmas party. This dress (from Mrs. Paula) got a lot of use this holiday season. She LOVED it and was like Superwoman when she put it on. She really became like this whole other person. It was hilarious. Ironically enough, Santa Claus was her kryptonite.

When we went to go see him, in this very dress, it did not go well. If you imagine the Santa Claus scene in "A Christmas Story" and picture Randy and the kid in the weird goggles, you will have our Santa experience. Adelynn SCREAMED a blood curdling, ear piercing scream. Well, if I'm honest, it would be screams. Needless to say, we have a pretty funny video, but no cute picture with, or near, Santa this year.

Here is Adelynn in one of her three Christmas dresses (all gifts) on the way to church. Blurry picture, but cute smile.