"All Aboard!"

Does anyone remember this baby?

Wasn't she so cute??




What about this little twerp?

And now this year? As I've taken a photo for a 3rd year, I feel a bit guilty. See, I have trapped my father in law into the fact that he needs to keep this train around - at least until Skyler is married. (Hmm - maybe the first Christmas she is married I can get a picture of her and her new husband with the train?)

Happy Thanksgiving! (A bit late!!)

I lost my Camera Mojo... Luckily, I've finally crawled out from under my rock and started to edit my photos from our Thanksgiving in Lincoln. I thought I'd share a few of my favorites with you!

Nutcracker Skyler:

Singing Skyler

Storytime Skyler

Piano Playing Aunt Katie

 

Skyler's New Best Friend

Elfred Jingle

This holiday season, we have a visitor in our house!!

His name is Elfred Jingle, and he's visiting from the North Pole! Santa had picked our family to house an Elf in Training!! (If we take extra good care of him, he'll pass his E.L.F. tests at the North Pole and be a full blown Elf!! Then he will get to return to us every year!)

Elfred reports to the North Pole every night while we are asleep, telling Santa if Skyler has been a good girl, and then returns to our house before we wake up!

 

He arrived early in the morning on December 1st, with a letter from Mrs. Claus and an advent calendar for Skyler!

So far he's done a pretty wide variety of things, including baking cookies over night (ginger snaps) and playing with Skyler's toys. She must have been especially good yesterday, because he arrived with a sticker album and three sheets of stickers! 

**Elfred is similar to, but not part of the Elf on the Shelf program.

Four Generations! (And a teaser!)

I'm in the process of sifting through the 1000+ photos I took over Thanksgiving Weekend! But I wanted to give you a teaser shot! (I'm sort of going backwards through my memory card, so it's one of the last shots I took!)

We were lucky enough to have both Great Grandma and Daddy in town all at the same time! So I snapped a Four Generations Shot!!

Stay tuned for more fun stories and photos over the next few days as I get going!!