Around the House...

Trying to think of a way to put Christ back in Christmas, I put out these "gifts" as a way for us to remember the gifts we can give our Savior at Christmas.

The mom tree-

If you look close, Baby Jesus is missing from the picture. Makenzy likes to play with the "baby." The "baby" on our advent calendar also went missing this year. Again, Makenzy had taken the baby to play with.

Christmas dresses. We love your style. Thank you Grandma!

The girls couldn't wait to get their dresses on for a picture.

More Christmas clothes. We all have coordinating outfits thanks to Grandma B.

When Randy lunches down by Pike's Place, he picks me up flowers.

Love the dried swag you picked
up Randge. Beautiful. Thank you!

Madalyn designed this. She was just doodling on the back of some spider man paper and decided to see how it looked in the frame. I love it!

It is formed like a snowflake, but looks like a bare winter branch.

Simple and sweet. A perfect fit for the "kid tree". Kid tree kid art.

The mail box is a treasure lock box this time of year. We quickly sort through the bills, the solicitations, to find square envelopes, red envelopes, envelopes with Christmas stamps, and familiar addresses. Christmas cards are a mini gift we look forward to getting. Thanks to everyone that sends them out, even the "e-mail attachments".

Other things we always find around the house, no matter what season.

Neighbor gifts. I bagged on cooking this year. In fact, I usually avert baking up mass plates of cookies, fudge, and holiday yummies almost every year, except for our family.

But, we sure love to get them.

This year I simplified, again. We went simple. I went just a bit beyond slapping a bow on the bottles and made them look like waiters.

The menu was Madalyn's idea...she is so clever. It reads...

Menu

One Christmas well done

and a

side order of New Year's Cheer.

Merry Christmas, The Whites.

We went caroling to our neighbors and delivered them. The kids loved it. I am so glad I married a singer, Randy and the kids definitely drown out my out of tune voice.