Who Needs Gifts When You Can Clean Up Paper

Christmas was good to us this year. Mae thought her gifts were...nice...but what she REALLY loved was cleaning up wrapping paper and throwing it in the trash bag. She wouldn't let anyone move on with the next gift until she cleaned up the paper and threw it in the trash. The whole day was nice from going to church with Grandma Weez and Papa D, to our own Christmas, to lunch and Christmas festivities with the Poe's and Schlensker's, to a call to Sister Jackie on the mish. It was really a nice day. We did miss Grandpa, Grandma, and Aunt Kylee, but them not being there just meant Christmas was extended to another day. -T

Aren't Christmas morning pictures usually hideous? We took advantage of possibly the best Christmas morning picture of her life

She was a little unsure about the whole stocking thing

Trying to figure it out

Hair ties from Santa!

I'm not really sure what was so funny...we gave her no gag gifts

Is she still laughing at us? Or saying, "You guys are both the MAN!"

Cute in pigtails

After church...ready to start opening presents! (or throwing wrapping paper away)

"Dad, I would like to throw your paper away for you."

I guess "fun" is in the eye of the beholder

Okay...new pajamas...not wrapping paper.

Lindsey decided to put her new pajama skirt on over her church clothes. I kept thinking she reminded me of someone...

...and then it came to me...

"Put me in coach!"

Ready for the next phase of Christmas day...

...where we apparently didn't take any pictures.

(But we did have a really nice time with the Poe's and Schlensker's)

I pulled my new electric razor out from Lindsey to look at it. All of the sudden Mae grabbed it and started rubbing it on my cheeks.
She's very smart

She loves her new boots
Running to the end of 2011!

Final Post of 2011

See you in 2012!

(which won't be long since I didn't actually post this until almost 3 months into 2012)