Christmas

Okay. So here comes the overload of pictures from our Christmas holiday. We spent a week in Snowflake with our families and had a lot of fun. We loved Christmas but were a bit disappointed when Natalie reacted to absolutely NOTHING that we got her. It was really sad. But we woke her up at 7:00 to open presents and I don't think she felt very good. She would just open a present, look at it, and then put it aside with no change in facial expression on every single thing that she opened. Oh well, I guess that's what happens when we massively deprive her of sleep on vacation and then wake her up before she's ready. But, she loves all of her stuff now.

So it managed to snow everywhere in the white mountains except for Snowflake. Show Low got quite a bit so one morning we went up to Melanie's house to play in the snow. Natalie had soooo much fun. She knows what snow is, but being a Tucson baby, she really has never seen or played in it. I thought she would get cold after a few minutes and want to go inside. (This is my child who runs for her blanket when the air conditioner comes on in the summer) But that wasn't the case. Who knows how long she would have stayed out there if the rest of us weren't freezing and wanting to go inside. She was having too much fun throwing snow at grandpa.

This next picture is Kelton and Hudson. I think the idea was "let's get a cute picture of the two boys in the bucket." I don't think the two boys approved very much. But I still think this picture is cute.This is Natalie being waiting to be an angel in the Webb nativity scene.

And here are some random ones of the kids. Natalie wanted a dog and she got the only one I was willing to get her. There are also some pictures of new Christmas outfits.

So this is another thing Natalie got for Christmas although she didn't get it until after we got back because we sure weren't strapping this onto the car. She's totally outgrown her toddler bed so we bought some bunk beds. She was so excited to get a "bigger bed."

And I just really like this picture. Maybe it's just because this is what they both do when I get the camera out--they attack me. I expect it from Natalie, but even Kelton charges when he sees the camera. I don't know if the picture shows up big enough to really see this, but I love to look at their eyes. You have really brown on one side and the bluest of blue on the other. You've got the dominance of both mom and dad showing through. Who would have thought...