Baby's First Bath

Here's little Elizabeth all snuggled up, belly-full, sleeping not knowing Mommy and Daddy were getting ready to wake her up........

....to this......

She did settle down after a few minutes, right as Daddy was done washing her. She looks rather pensive in this picture, no?

Here she after the trauma- all wrapped up in her towel. In case we had forgotten, the towel reminds us that she's a "BABY" in cute heart letters over her forehead.

Christmas

Christmas Eve- setting out cookies for Santa

Christmas Morning- before opening presents

Our Christmas Angel

The kids' castle that Grandpa built for them

one happy family

Elizabeth Mae

This is the Christmas blanket and hat the hospital gave us.

Here is a close-up of our princess.















My girls












A rose among thorns

Favorite Christmas Songs

I had to subdivide these into my own categories:

Favorite Traditional Non-Religious Song:

"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" by anyone

The line, "Next year all our troubles will be miles away" offers such hope :)

Favorite Non-Traditional, Non-Religious Songs:

"The Hanukkah Song" by Adam Sandlar

This one just cracks me up every time I hear it.

"Mele Kalikimaka" by anyone

I like this because it takes me someplace warm.

Favorite Non-Traditional, Religious Song:

"Mary, Did You Know?" sung by anyone

This has become one of the girls favorites too, but I have to stop them when they start singing it to each other- it becomes rather silly when they respond with, "Yes, I did know" in a falsetto voice. Also, they need to learn the real words because we end up with, "Mary, did you know your son was gonna save us?" and such like that.

Favorite Traditional, Religious Songs:

"O, Holy Night" by anyone, but especially Josh Groban

I love to belt this one out whenever I hear it. Doesn't matter that I can't carry a tune- I just belt it.

"O, Come All Ye Faithful" by any church choir/congregation

For some reason, this song always brings tears to my eyes. During the line, "Sing choirs of angels, sing in jubilation, sing all ye citizens of heaven above" I can always picture my departed grandmothers along with Brett's departed grandmother in robes just belting this song out- kind of the way I do to "O, Holy Night" :)

Anyone care to share theirs?