Christmas!

On Christmas, we all slept in until 8am (gone are the days of being awake at 4:30!) and then wandered downstairs, ate breakfast, searched for the pickle (Promise found it), and opened gifts. Grammy came a few hours later and we had a quiet, relaxing Christmas. 

The next morning, mom and dad went on vacation and Grammy, Nathan, and I babysat the kids all weekend. It was a blast! :-D

Here are pictures from Christmas:

The day started with Promise loving on her hamster, Pip 

Promise and her baby

Christmas stockings

Joy Anna was excited to open presents

Evelyn was excited too

Promise was the first one to find the pickle. Here, she's smirking at the other kids still trying to find it

silly faces

Grace

She loved doing puzzles

Thanksgiving Pictures

I finally remembered to download photos off my camera and discovered photos from Thanksgiving and Christmas. Here are the best:

Grace, Promise, and Sophie

Nathan and Sam set up snack trays

Grace drawing

Pecan pie! 

the lovely Aunt Donna

Aunt Donna and Grammy

The girls learned how to curl hair

Thanksgiving dinner!

Every year, we make new name cards. This year's theme was Disney characters.

Dad carving the turkey

Sam 

Uncle Matt and Aunt Donna

Change of authors.....

As you may have noticed, I (Danielle) haven't exactly been regular at updating this blog because my life has been a tad bit busy (you know, nursing school, 2 jobs, etc.). So I have made the slightly dangerous decision to hand this blog over to Grace to update. She is a hysterical writer and has a very dry sarcastic writing style (even funnier than me, if you can imagine that...). I'm sure she will keep y'all well updated on what is going on in the Wilson family with plenty of pictures of Promise's hamster. Or she will upload pictures like these:

But here's one of Promise's super fat hamster:

See? He's a fat creature. 

So here's a flattering image of your wonderful new blog author. Good luck, Grace!!! :)