Announcement: I am done Christmas shopping, but haven't even begun to put together Christmas cards. A little backwards this year. You WILL get a picture and a card!!!

Instead of a buy nothing CHristmas we decided to have a buy less Christmas at our home. We also had a more-homemade Christmas and shared our crafting abilities with friends.

Dave put up our Christmas Village over the weekend. It is beautiful, i love it, and it reminds me of being a child. At our house my mom would instruct us to collect a few of our toys to place on puffs of cotton batting/stuffing. Of course lights shone through from underneat creating a beautiful, cartoony glow. The toy that always made it to the village was our Ewoke play set. I'm talking the original from the Ewoke/star wars movies... created sometimes in the 70's or 80's. My mom saved this play set and all it's parts, and now it is the central piece in our Family Christmas Village. Dave did an extraordinary job setting up the display. Each little group of toys has a story line, a song, and a task! Very involved! Thanks dave, i love you. I can't wait until we can have corrina bring her favorite toys for the Christmas village. I imagine in a few years if will spread over our kitchen table!


Last week we were out at Christmas Shing digs almost every night. Corrina was home one night out of 7 or 8. Absolutely too much coming and going, but none the less a lot of fun. We even attened a Christmas party at a extraveagent home where servers took our coats and shoes, poured our drinks and carried trays offering delivciously obscure H'orderves. Our pastor's wife at church gave Corrina a cute little Christmas dress. I will snap a photo next time she is dressed up. For now here are some pictures of her playing on her new push car, coloring (both her face and her paper), and wearing too-big rubber boots that Candace spotted at the thrift store. Actually, i had one of my most sucessful thrift store runs last week. I found two awesome wool coats, lots of Dave (currently wrapped under the tree), and many cute things for Corrina.
Oh yes, back to pictures..

Do you see what i see? A nice shade of green in the corner of her mouth. Last week at daycare Corrina colored her very own black moustache on her upper lip using the classic licorice smelly marker. I had just dropped her off and she was already into the coloring! I think she likes to taste the markers and crayons more than make art with them! I just hope the daycare gets crayon soon, and i am not too sure about getting marker off of leather robeez. Maybe spray and wash will work! I think you can see her top teeth in this picture if you look closley.

Not the new Christmas dress, but the new christmas push car (from Grandma Judy... babies get lots of early presents!) She can actualy push herself both forward and backwards on this thing. She has also mastered getting off, which just means she leans over until she and the car topple over, then she crawls away happily! (those shoes are also from the thrift store. Really great day, i'm telling ya!)



our favorite girl Bre visited us