Hello!  I hope you all had a Merry Christmas!  I know we did!  I am currently in the process of disassembling all that is Christmas around here so everything is a mess!  Ha!  I have some photos to share of Christmas - although I am always taking lots of photos - the holidays are not always the times I do so.  I know.  Weird.  I tend to enjoy the moment more than worry about getting a great shot.  Really, I don't need 50 photos of unwrapping gifts - that's just not my thing.  I enjoyed watching and looking at Alyson's face in person rather than looking at it through the lens.  Just my thing.  And here are some that I took.

This one was taken Christmas day.  I had Alyson pose with something she has asked for, for a long time.    Ha!  A snow globe!  She loved it!  I just hope that it ends here and we don't have 5,000 of them in the future! :)

  Christmas Eve Alyson is with her dad but I still set up cookies, milk, and carrots for Santa and the reindeer.  She likes me to take a photo so that she can see:)  I admit, it is hard not having her home for Christmas Eve, but it is what it is and as long as she is ok, then that is all that matters.:)

Here are the cookies.  We usually make cookies, but she wasn't in the cookie making mood before she left for her dads, so I put some cookies that I had out.  I made the plate with my Cricut machine.  Love the way it came out!

Of course we "caught" Santa once again!!  So fun!

Christmas day Alyson and I spent the day with my mom at our place.  Usually my sister and my brother in law are here as well, but they went up North, so it was just the three of us.  It was SO nice not to have to travel (drive) on Christmas, and just be comfy all day enjoying goodies.

Alyson and I planned the breakfast menu for Christmas morning.  She wanted pancakes, bacon, apple juice, blueberries, and maraschino cherries.  So that is what we had.  Here is putting blueberries on grandmas plate.

  After we ate, we decided to walk downtown and get some Starbucks---mmmmmm.  Here is Alyson by one of the Nutcrackers.

And with one of the many reindeer.  I got more photos while we were out, but haven't had a chance to edit those yet.

When we got back we played Headbandz - it is a new game out.  Love it and it was extremely fun!  As long as Alyson and my mom aren't cheating!

And I will leave you with some photos of our jammies this year.  We got matching ones!  I made sure that my mom took a photo of us before the tree got taken down.  Don't mind the no make-up - just look at the cute girl:)

That's all I have today:)  I redid my blog last night - do you like?

Michelle