Saturday, January 10, 2009

Christmas!


OUR 2008 CHRISTMAS!!!

Never too late I guess?
I have found that the older my girls get, the more excited I get for SANTA to come! This was Rylee Jo's first year of grasping the whole Christmas concept... She was so fascinated by every aspect of it all season long. From the Baby Jesus, to Santa Clause & his Reindeer, the gift giving, and even all the different "reasons for the season"! We started/followed some FUN traditions:

Celebrating Christ's birth at the annual
Anderson Nativity!
(this years' performance by all the cousin-grandchildren).



ANGEL Rylee Jo could not have been any cuter!
She loved this angel dress SO MUCH, she wore it for DAYS:)



Christmas Eve:
Rylee learned that Santa likes to eat cookies! So, she often pretended to be Santa Clause (while me & Milly were her reindeer) at meal time, and would tell me things such as- "No, YOU better eat that 'reindeer' breakfast, and I'LL eat some milk & cookies". Ha ha ha:)
Here we are hard at work, making Santa some delicious cookies:


TO SANTA:
On our special new Santa plate, and the cup Rylee picked out. (Don't worry, Rylee was concerned as to what Santa's reindeer ate, so when she sat on his lap she asked him!)



Christmas Morning:
The excitement was AWESOME, as we read the notes Santa had left behind... a letter for each of the girls with a guide to who's wrapping paper would be who's!

THANKS, SANTA!
The girls rushed straight to their stockings that were sitting on their new little chairs!
Milly mainly loved the candy, and that's about ALL she cared about the whole time:)
(i guess we shoulda' fed her first?)

Rylee Jo was THRILLED to have gotten her "Baby Doll & Dress" she had her heart set on for so long.
It was exactly what she had asked for when she marched right up to Santa in the Mall, sat on his lap and whispered in his ear! Milly loved the look-alike Cabbage Patch Doll too.


Christmas with the Ralph cousins:

Christmas with the Smith cousins:


AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
We rang in 2009 at the UofU basketball game, with the cutest dang cheerleaders those Utes will ever have!

7 comments:

Lay-UN Smith's said...

Possibly your best post ever! Thanks for recording all of our family's fun times on here!

-SS

jaclyn anderson said...

The girls look so cute as always! Hey where did you get those chairs for the girls? I have been looking for one for Aidan!

The Johnson Fam said...

Jaime

I have been thinking about you and your family lately and I hope that you are all doing well. It looks like you guys had a great christmas, glad santa was good to you. Keep in touch and take care.

Catherine said...

SO SO CUTE! WE JUST LOVE YOU GUYS! Your family couldn't be any cuter!

Britney and Jaren Jensen said...

What a fun Christmas you guys had! I am drooling over your cute girls, their darling bows, and your header picture!!! Seriously what is the trick to coordinating, bow styling & #1 everyone in the fam looking at the camera smiling.

Chris & Missy said...

Ha Ha. I love the plate of cookies with the carrots for the reindeer!! Your girls are seriously so cute.

It looks like you had a good Christmas!!


We still need to get together for lunch soon!

Vegas Anderson Clan said...

Christmas is so much more exciting with little kids. It was great seeing you over the holiday and Jill's wedding. Did you ever finish the book?:)