Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Final Countdown to Christmas

Here are a few random holiday photos before I get into "the meat" of our Christmas celebrations!

The weekend before Christmas, Josie's cousins Morgan & Katrina came down for some holiday fun and a walk down the street to the Duke Energy train display. Josie has so much fun with her older cousins - as you can see in these pictures.


 
An instant classic!

Another day...another train display...another outfit that includes a tutu. (She loves her tutu, and as we see it, there's no harm in letting her wear it whenever she feels like it. Let's be honest, if I could get away with wearing fairy-ballerina clothes out of the house, I probably would.)

I'll make a very long story as short as I can when I say that we wanted to make a gingerbread house and had to do it from scratch because all the kits were processed with peanuts. It was definitely a bit of a disaster that started with some way-too-sticky dough, proceeded to "oh no open the windows, it's on fire", and ended with a gingerbread house that we feared couldn't be saved. Alas, we pressed on & ended up with something that Josie deemed worthy of Rudolph's table (more on that later).   This first photo is a bit like a crime-scene to anyone who witnessed the gingerbread debacle.

The final product - which caused Josie to sustain a head injury after bonking her brow into a rock-hard piece of gingerbread while trying to suck a gumdrop off of the gingerhouse 'lawn'.
 
Oh the memories...

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