Christmas Break!

We love taking family walks in our neighborhood. For a while there Annabelle insisted that she wear both her hat and her gloves, even though it hasn't been very cold.

One day I noticed Annabelle placing the computer mouse on the bookshelf, stepping back, and saying "cheese". I had my speculations but wasn't sure what she was doing until she did it another day. I realized that she is pretending to set a timer on the "camera" (computer mouse) and then take a picture of herself. We decided to get the real camera out and let her set the timer for some pictures. Here is one of the pictures that Annabelle took of us. Don't you like the hole in the bottom of Jeff's sock?

Being silly on one of our walks.

What a cutie!
Jeff is now halfway through his 2nd year of med school! I can't believe how fast time is going by. He had a few weeks off for Christmas break so we were able to go to his parent's house in Missouri for Christmas. We had a great time! We are so fortunate to have received so many wonderful gifts this year from so many people. Aunt Jennifer even made Annabelle a bean bag chair. Thank you to everyone for your generosity and love!

Annabelle was able to play the angel when they re-enacted the nativity scene.

Here she is strutting her little self with her new pajama's and slippers on Christmas Eve.

She is such a sweet little girl and I love seeing these little lips puckered for a kiss.

Our little family on Christmas day. Jeff is very festive and wears these pants every Christmas. His tie sings too!

She did not want to smile for a picture in her Christmas dress.

We stopped at the park one day and Annabelle became the most excited little girl I've seen. It was her first time going to this park and when we pulled into the parking lot she points at the playground and screams "yayyyy! whoo hooo!" as she is clapping. "weeeee!" "swiiing! yeahhhh!" and claps some more. It was priceless and I wish we had it on video.

She was so sad when we had to leave but she sure had fun while we were there.

Saying "cheese" for the camera.

She had fun playing with her ball when we went to play miniature golf. We were able to enjoy doing a lot of fun things over the break and it was nice to spend time with Jeff's family.