Friday, May 8, 2009

Catch-up -- November/December 2008

Grandma Gibbs gave the kids a "Little People" Nativity set this year that they opened a few days after Thanksgiving. They really enjoyed playing with it throughout the holiday season. Hopefully they will be just as excited when we get it out next year.



Mark and Sherman making the traditional Pepper Cookies for our goodie plates. Pretty handsome twosome if you ask me!

Eliza helped by playing in her seat with the Little People and being a very good girl.
Sherman had a bit of a cough, so this was our attempt to keep germs out of the cookies.

Aunt Sarah came to visit for a week before Christmas. Sherman and Eliza had a great time with her. Aunt Sarah was so good to play with them, shovel snow, and pull them on the sled. It was really cold while Sarah was here and we had an ice storm and a big snow storm while she was here, so we didn't get to go too many places, but we had a great time anyway. Aunt Sarah also helped us bake all of the Pepper Cookies. It took too long evenings, but we finally got it done.


The night before Aunt Sarah left we had a very nice Hanukkah dinner (I can't remember all of the menu items right now, but it was all very tasty). And then we opened our traditional Christmas Eve gifts a few days early with her.

Here we all are with our new pajamas.

Sarah also enjoyed reading all of our Christmas books. I believe she read every one by the time she left.
And finally the airport scene -- We waited for a while with Sarah since her plane was late leaving. As you can see, Sherman is having a hard time saying goodbye. We all had a great time and hope Sarah will come visit us again!

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