Merry Christmas!



The moment of truth....





Jack was so excited about getting a Pez dispenser in his stocking!





Grandpa Paul made these little adirondack chairs for the boys -very cute!




At the Livingstons house on Christmas Eve.




Kristen's little baby girl, Addison -not even 7 weeks old, and Super Grandma





My mom's side of the family



The obligatory Santa visit.

Sigh. This went significantly worse than last year's attempt.

Two things:

1) Rory really could be falling off the face of the earth and, so long as Jack is focussed on getting presents, it will more or less go un-noticed.

2) Am I bad mother for going ahead with this picture anyway? Perhaps. But it felt like a rite of passage that needed to be observed.

Visit to Santa Claus: √

Dapper young gentlemen.

Our visiting elf

This is Cody. He is a little elf that shows up at our house every year at the start of the Christmas season. He's a sneaky little elf who appears in a different part of the house every morning... It's a lot of fun for both Rory and Jack to find him! Cody the elf stays for the day and keeps a close watch on the boys, because every night he magically returns to the North Pole to update Santa on whether Jack and Rory have been naughty or nice.

He's pretty sneaky! This morning he was hiding with Mommy's cook books!

Trimming the tree