Christmas, Part 1

Since we got our tree out of the box and ready to put up, I'm suprised at how helpful Annie is! She wanted to help put up the tree with Mom and Dad. Okay, maybe not help. But she was right in the middle of it all!


She does love to help wrap presents. I'm really looking forward to Christmas morning when I don't have to take the wrapping paper away from her. Guess how many rolls of it she's destroyed...:)



We had our Ward Christmas Party 2 weekends ago. Unfortunately, Kris had to work, so Annie and I were flying solo! Annie was excited to go. She got to play at Grandma Vesta's house while I went to the church to help set up (Hail the Conquering Activities Committee!). She had lots of fun there, she helped to un-decorate the Christmas tree (okay, maybe that wasn't so much "help" as just being a nuisance), taking out the trash (again with the nuisance...), and folding laundry (that's help!).


This year, we had a soup dinner (yum!) and a short program, followed by Santa, of course! Annie loved to watch the Primary kids up on the stage. I was suprised at how well-behaved she was for the whole program! Unfortunately...she did not love Santa.

One of our favorite Christmas activities is to decorate cookies and take plates of treats to our neighbors. Annie helped with that, too!

This is my favorite picture...after a long afternoon of frosting cookies (note that we had to change her shirt...pink frosting on yellow? Thank you Oxyclean!), Annie was exhausted.