Christmas at Rebecca's mom's house

 Piano concert...  mom teaches several of the grandkids and they give a concert on holidays

 It was sooo funny because it was in an American Girl Doll box! LOL

Christmas Morning 2012

I thought I'd go ahead and post Christmas Morning pictures while I'm waiting for the potato casserole to finish baking before we go to mom's.  Apparently we forgot to get Dad in any pics!  OOPS!  Usually I'm the one taking pics and dad is there but I'm not.  This year Sophie took over the camera somewhat.

 Stockings...

 Sophie's going to make a GREAT present giver!  She stuffed my slippersocks into a juice bottle to disguise the shape!!

 I had asked for a new cabinet for storing fabric

 edible arrangement

 Sophie was 'Santa' this year, meaning she is the one who passed out the presents

Christmas presents

A friend wanted to see this year's pile of presents in the fabric 'wrapping' bags.  We don't have our regular tree up because we've recently dealt with fleas and I don't want to risk bringing flea eggs into next Christmas, so we used our Charlie Brown Christmas Tree atop the piano instead.

The kids have no idea what color their presents are tied with.  I do something like this every year, either the same wrapping paper for one kid and a different for another, or the tags will say 'Cutie' and 'Sweetie' instead of their names, or I've even done numbered tags representing each kid.  It's fun, and it keeps them from knowing for sure which are theirs LOL!  Tho, Sophie knows one of these is Christian's cuz it's the biggest and she knew what size box of something he was getting.  *sigh*  oh well... LOL!  She still doesn't know what is hers, cuz daddy has a certain color ribbon too, and there are combined ribbons to represent them all, or just the kids together as well.

Christmas Tea

My sister-in-law had a Christmas Tea.  The girls decorated cookies and made paper tea cups.  They all had a fun time!  It was loud... but fun :)

The pics shown are of the older group, but there was a younger girl group as well.  Each niece go to invite several girls and they sort of segregated themselves! LOL