My mother lives very far away in Northern New Mexico and can rarely make it back here for holidays (even if she had planned to, they are buried in snow!!), so I decided to make a little collection of pictures from the past few days. I hope everyone enjoys them, but these are for you, Mom~ Merry Christmas!!

Visions of sugar plums? Well, at least mama’s milk…. It is Henri’s First Christmas!

Me, with all my kiddos.

Darbiana, Zoe, and Henri.

All the grandkids, getting ready to go to the Nutcracker! Well, not Henri, but all the girls~

This morning.

These are the amazing sock monkeys Grandma / Marci made for all of them.

My gifts from Jerome and ‘Santa’…

And, last but certainly not least, my super awesome gift (well, one of them) from my sister. It has been 25 YEARS since I got my first Cabbage Patch Kid and she was there is experience the life changing event with me. Seriously, I was sooooo excited. So, for this year, here’s one more!

Well, there is a Wii and Wii Fit to set up, American Girl dolls to play with, clothes to wear, good food to eat, video cameras to play with, my new totally amazing round orb compost bin (THANKS MOM!!!) but most of all? There is family to love. I hope everyone has a wonderful day. I am going to sip my coffee that the most wonderful husband ever has made me, and lock my myself in the bathroom for awhile to try out every one of my new Burt’s Bees products. But then, it is all about the family.

xxoo