Christmas

We had Christmas in Tucson and had a great time as expected. We took our family photo in the fabulous Arizona winter weather. Notice Easton and Devery's newest addition, Noelle who got her first 7 hour roadtrip at age 2 weeks! I don't know who I'm more impressed by, mom or baby, but we were so glad to meet her. Way to go! She's beautiful!

I love the way we do pictures. We pick the color, put it on, go outside, take the picture (all in a matter of an hour). Done. And it always looks great - but if not, hey, there's always next year. The way family pictures should be. Though I'm sure it would only work in a family of a lot of boys.

Hannah and Jeannie created a secret "Narnia room" for Allison and Julia to sleep in.

When closed the bookcase behind Allison appears a solid wall, but in fact opens to reveal stairs leading up into a carpeted crawl space. Hannah decorated it with dangling white Christmas lights, beads, and draped delicate fabrics over the storage hidden at the periphery. Allison and Julia had the honor of keeping the much-cherished musical carousel next to their pillow and many other of Hannah's precious dolls, dress-ups, glass dishes and other things from her childhood. It was enchanting to say the least and they spent the majority of time hidden away up there.


Of course we did the traditional Eegee's (pictured), breakfast at Brawley's, shopping spree at Savers, white elephant exchange with surprise visit from Steve - uh, I mean Santa (neither of our girls fell for it this year), and lot's of other stuff I forget.

Here are Julia and Mason trying to get some dog food (aka cheese).

I have to include this pic because it was amazing. All the guys moved this ginormous tree (with casualty to neither man nor tree) for Steve's courtyard remodel that is going to be gorgeous.

Ew gross, looks like Steve wore the same shirt the whole time! Teasing.

We had a great time with everyone!