Merry Christmas

190 miles, 6 houses, 4 days, and the majority of our Christmas celebrations are complete.  Overall, this year will be remembered with sweetness as little Miss. Ella's 1st Christmas! It will also be remembered as the year we battled sickness, but thanks to the wonderful care of family, we came out alive and really not too much worse for the wear;) 

The Joy of Christmas 2011:

Christmas Eve

 Ring around the rosie, a pocket full of posies...

 ... ashes, ashes, we all fall down! (except for Trevon:)

Ella wanted to get in on the fun too-- maybe next year:)

Christmas Day

Ella and Elli :)

Grandma with almost all her grandchildren ( the only one missing was Sophie)

The Day After Christmas

Our Christmas In Chippewa Falls

 Ella's present from Gianna, a Winnie the Pooh ball!

 Gianna's present from Ella, a Minnie Mouse jump rope!

Happy Birthday Baby Jesus! 
Gianna picked a baby carriage cake for Jesus-- and of course, any cake she makes would not be complete with out sprinkles;)

For the rest of the Christmas season, we pray our hearts will remain open and thankful to the wondrous gift we've been given.

The gift of a baby, who brought with Him the power of FAITH, HOPE, and LOVE.

Merry Christmas to all our blog readers!