Christmas in Georgia

January 18, 2012

Christmas in Georgia

Christmas this year was such a fun season. There is nothing like experiencing it through the eyes and joys of your children. As I've said before, Will really got into it this year and Laura is just into everything so it truly felt magical. We have a wonderful advent book that we read every night that really taught Will the Christmas story which he acted out with his Little People manger scene and people almost every night. There were a few nights our Little People characters were MIA, due to play during the day, so he would run to my other manger scene and borrow the appropriate people for our reading instead. Melted our hearts when we would say the verse starting with Emmanuel and he would cry out, "God with us." It was a special time for all of us.

I lost count of how many times we watched The Polar Express, worked on Christmas crafts, made cookies and sang along to Christmas carols. We were all sad to see the month pass but are already excited about next year, well, Will is excited to get to pull out TPE again and watch it another hundred times. Ha! Until then, here are some shots of our final December days of 2011 spent in Georgia.

Will and Audrey ate candy, I mean made Gingerbread Houses

Us on Christmas Eve-

Laura is demonstrating her great love for sitting still

Christmas Eve Service -

This is the adorable face Laura made when the lights went down and the music started.

Four sweet friends.

I can't get Laura to keep a bow in her hair but the girl loves her jewels and again she is loving this photo op.

That's a little better...

Annual Family Christmas Carols...

...dancing to carols was the thing this year

While we were caroling Laura was updating her Facebook status. Baby rude. :)

Me and my main squeeze

Christmas with my family

(check out Will's awesome pout while it was Laura's turn to unwrap)

Christmas with Nate's family

Will went to see his first movie in the movie theater, Alvin and the Chipmunks - Chipwrecked. He thought the whole experience was so cool, who wouldn't with a big bag of popcorn on your lap and some of your favorite characters on this massive screen.