Happy Holidays!

I hope everyone had a good Christmas! And we wish you all a happy New Year!

Here are a few pictures we took on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day...

Beatrice voluntarily wearing the antlers ;)

Duncan in his new Batman jammies "checking" his Lightning McQueen Computer

Beatrice giving her baby doll a kiss

Playing with her Little People Castle

The paper was just as fun as the presents :)

Christmas Card

Well, here is our anxiously awaited Christmas card! ;) If you are lucky enough to be on our list, I am mailing them out today! I'm so behind!! ;) So I hope you will get them at least on Christmas Eve ;) If not, here it is.

Believe it or not, this one was the best of the bunch. We had to take at least 20 pictures. This was only about the second one we took, they didn't get any better... ;)

Maria playing the saxophone at her winter concert last night :) the band did an awesome job!
Somehow the video of the winter concert ended up at the bottom of this post...

My favorite picture over the last few weeks... Daddy's gettin all kinds of love :)

Beatrice all bundled up :)

View of the snow from the front porch

And from the back porch

Ah... sharing the chair so nicely

The kids have been watching Shrek The Halls quite a bit, so dragging around their Shrek dolls. Apparently the big one is Mommy Shrek and the small one is Daddy Shrek... probably because Duncan knows who wears the pants in the family! ;)

Simultaneous Shrek chewing.

Duncan's Spiderman Hat! :) (that he wore for maybe a day before he went back to his "hawiian" superhero hat).

And here are the eagerly anticipated videos of Maria's winter concert... The first one is her announcing the song! She was so excited to be able to do that :) and the next one is the first song they did - "winter wonderland," and then the last one is the ending of the song she announced - "Do you hear what I hear."

Getting Ready for X-Mas!!

I was finally able to upload some pictures!!! Yay!! I just had to do them one at a time, otherwise the upload failed out and some of them I had to try a couple of times before they went... but hopefully I have this much success from here on out! I thought I had solved my problem until some failed, but if I have to try a couple of times and only upload one at a time, its better than nothing! :)

As is traditional, we put up the tree and xmas decorations on the day after Thanksgiving! We all had a blast. Duncan really got in there and helped out :) He enjoyed it! It was too funny the way he just jumped in and started decorating the tree with the girls as if he'd always done it!

And this is what baby sister did while we were decorating the tree...

Here comes the antler fest ;)We've gotten a lot of Christmas mileage out of those antlers! :)

Still no pictures...

If you can believe it, I am still pretty much unable to upload pictures. And it really sucks! There's something wrong with my settings or something and I just can't figure it out. Oh well... guess you will all just have to do without adorable pictures of the kids for a while.

Everyone is doing really well and getting all geared up for the holiday! I think Duncan actually has a good idea about what this Christmas/Santa thing is all about this year. It should be pretty exciting for him this year. He actually helped the girls decorate the tree this year! He just jumped right in there and started putting things on the tree as if he'd always done it. Of course Beatrice felt pretty left out. We've been watching Rudolph and Frosty and Santa Claus is Coming to Town since Thanksgiving. Duncan's favorite is Rudolph.

Maria will be playing her saxophone for the Christmas concert at school and she's really excited about it! She's been practicing quite a bit.

Our Christmas card this year may be a little on the silly side... we were going to try to get one with everyone dressed up, but then spontaneously did the pictures right after we got the tree up and decorated, so everyone was still in their jammies :) and we had an especially difficult time this year getting a decent picture (just try to get 4 kids to all cooperate and smile at the same time).

Anyway, I hope everyone is doing well and getting all their Christmas shopping done ;) I know we are a tad behind on that one! :)