Holidays

Christmas was wonderful! We got to spend time with both of our fabulous families, and I think that was the best part of the month of December for us. Here we are at the Wistisen family party, which was so fun. The entire family was there, and we had good food and played games and told the Christmas story and the kids had a pinata. Grandma gave us ornaments and a new Christmas book. We look forward to this fun party each year.Here is Rebecca eating her first Abelskiever (puffy round pancakes with apples inside). She devoured it and Grandma declared her a "true Danish baby!"
Here is Rebecca's new pink rocking chair that is just her size. She loves to drag it out to the living room if we are in there, or out into the hallway last week to wait for Daddy when he was in the bathroom cutting his hair. She loves having a chair just her size and I walk by her room sometimes and she is in her chair reading books and babbling. So cute!

My wonderful parents came up for a visit a few days before Christmas and we had such a good time together. They came at a perfect time, it was snowing a lot and Seth was gone plowing all the time, night and day, and I would have been so lonely! They helped me with so many things and my mom and I got some good scrapbooking time in! My dad set up my Christmas tree for me on the 23rd, and I am so glad he did. It really doesn't feel quite like Christmas until you have the tree up. I'll never not put it up again! Rebecca actually did pretty good with it...I was worried I'd spend the whole month keeping her away from it. Thanks for the fun visit, mom and dad!

Seth built this bookshelf for all of Rebecca's books. It is a cute little shelf, I thought that was a sweet Christmas gift from him. Rebecca loves to read sooooo much!

I find her like this a lot.

We went to the mall to see Santa Claus for her first time. I prepared her by showing her Santa in books for a few days. She could say Santa, and when we went, she was so cute, and said "Santa" over and over. She was happy to see him, I knew she would be. She is such a friendly baby, not afraid of anyone. I am so glad she is that way!

We sure did have a white Christmas! Lots of snow in December. The first time it snowed, Rebecca was in awe. It was adorable, she pointed out the window and said,"What's that, mama?" I'll never forget that sweet little voice saying that to me. She loves to stand at the window and watch the snow fall.

I got all crafty in December, and made these (and many other) cute hair clips for my nieces for Christmas. They were fun to do! I can't wait until Rebecca's hair is a bit longer and thicker and I can make some for her.

And I got together with a friend and made these cute Nativity blocks for Rebecca. What a fun project this was! I really want a Cricuit!!!! Someday.....

Rebecca and all her loot on Christmas day!!! She sure was spoiled!! Thank you to all of her sweet grandparents and her fabulous Aunt Jenni!

Pretty baby in all the wrapping paper.

Doing Karaoke with her cousin Emilee. Emilee is quite the little rock star!

Seth and Rebecca on a typical Sunday. Daddy's little girl, they are such good friends.

I put Rebecca's hair in curlers and..WOW, it worked! POOF!!

Then, I put her in her Beautiful new Christmas dress and tried so hard to get just ONE good picture. No cooperation from Rebecca though. By the end, she was crying and I wanted to. I wanted to give her grandparents some cute pictures for Christmas. But no such luck. So take my word for it, she was adorable in that dress!!!

And last but not least...THANKSGIVING!!! I'm really catching up here! We went to my Grandma and Grandpa Nelson's house in Utah, and it was so much fun to be there and see a lot of my aunts and uncles and cousins who we don't see very often. My parents took us to this awesome aquarium while we were down there too. I loved it!

Rebecca was a bit hungry....not in the mood for a picture, can't imagine why!

And this was so funny, we were looking through the black Friday ads, and Rebecca was licking her fingers and turning the pages. She was cracking us all up, especially her great grandma!