Christmas Eve!

We had a great holiday season. We stayed home and made some of our own traditions. While we missed family, it was nice to relax and focus on our little family and the true meaning of Christmas.

Christmas Eve dinner

After dinner V wedged herself in the couch and couldn't get her arm out.

A Christian church hauled in 4 tons of snow for the public to sled! We got to have a white Christmas after all! We were so ghetto, we showed up with card board boxes and cookie sheets (why do we need sleds in the South??). Thankfully they had saucers to use.

The hill was so great- all lit up with lights around it, bails of hay, and two racing lanes. The girls LOVED it!

Cambers was fascinated by the snow. She held it until her little fingers were bright red. Then she chucked it and said, "Mine hands are just cold. I'll put mine hands in mine pockets, and mommy needs to put her hands in her pockets too." Thanks for watching out for me Cambers.

After sledding, we visited a few houses that had incredible Christmas lights that were synced with Christmas music. They even had a radio station that we could turn to. It was luxurious!

We made it home and got dressed for the nativity:

Cambers chose to be the shepherd and assigned Vienna to be an angel

Our Nativity consisted of wrapping baby Jesus in swaddling clothes over and over and singing "Away in a Manger" (Cambry's lullaby song for the past month).

Our "manger" hung on our wall all month and we added straw whenever the girls did something that would make Jesus happy.  They are so sweet to each other so much of the time- it was so great to watch their excitement each time they, as Cambry put it, "made Jesus' bed soft".

After the nativity, we decorated cookies for Santa...

...And Cambers...

And Vienna. Yum!

Before bed, Cambers helped Dad put the cookies by the fireplace, so Santa could find them easily.