December 22, 2008

Christmas Time!

Merry Christmas Everyone! Us Gifford's love Christmas Time. We put up the Tree the day after Thanksgiving. Here is Brooklyn being Vanna and showing it off. She is holding her favorite ornament (a pine cone covered in glitter from preschool). I thought I would post a couple of pics of us during the holiday season and some fun things we like to do. Decorating the tree was lots of fun and we are constantly trying to keeping Chandler from take the "balls" and throwing them.

Here is Shad and Brooklyn making Christmas Sugar Cookies! YUMMY!!
Brooklyn testing out our handiwork. Looks delicious!
Chandler wouldn't really decorate anything. He was too busy eating. It was hard to convince him that one cookie was more than enough for a boy his size. He sometimes eats as much as me or Shad at dinner!

Here is Brooklyn mailing her letter to Santa. This is her "excited Santa" face. She wrote and asked for a Ballerina Barbie, and a Pink Barbie Car. Santa of course wrote back and said he saw those exact items in his workshop. He also thankfully reminded her to be nice to her little brother Chandler. She can pretty much quote the letter word for word. Merry Christmas everyone! We hope you have enjoyed the holidays as much as we have.

3 comments:

K'neth S. said...

I love Christmas too.
I never wrote a letter to santa. We also frosted sugar cookies (you never grow out of that). One of the burdens that come with the winter and Christmas time is Shoveling the snow. Brother Gifford helped us with his super terrific snow blower, so thanks a lot for that. have a very Merry Christmas!

Big Daddy said...

I think the best way to keep a kid from grabbing the bulbs on the tree is to hook an electrical current to a few of them. It should break the habit rather quickly. As far as the wanting more then one cookie... good luck with that.

Annie said...

your kids are getting too big and are so cute! looks like Christmas was fun at your household.
im glad everything went ok with brooklyn's surgery, what a hard thing to go through but she seems like a fighter!