Monday, January 2, 2012

Anderson Christmas

This Christmas we had my parents here for 11 days. It was so wonderful. Ruben and Julie came up for a couple days so we could celebrate our family Christmas together. It was so nice having really little girls in the house even if we did get a morning wake up call from Mia.

Decorating cookies:
This year we had another helper, Alena was old enough to help us.
Our littlest taste tester.



All the girls, Allie, Alena, Emilie, Olivia and Annie

Alena made that one for her daddy.

Olivia and Annie




















Anderson Christmas:


Julie passing out her "stockings".

Alena opening her wings.

Alena with her dress up box with lots of dress up
clothes.

Alena got smurf DVD's.

Alena's daddy bought her a gift at the
mall.


Mia opening a gift.




She got a big Hello Kitty.





So Dad was given the smallest gift. He opened it and it said look behind the our bedroom door. Dad thought it was a joke but he went and looked and found his big gift.

I think Dad was surprised. LOL


Shot gun.

Bullets to try it out.

Mia

Julie got some new yarn.

December times...

This year is no different then any other, December is a busy month for our family. For the first two weeks of the month I was very busy with school stuff, Secret Santa shop, parties and running the girls back and forth.
Here's a few highlights...

Emilie went on a field trip to the Grand Rapids Museum and went to see the Nutcracker.
It was the first time for both of us at either place. We had so much fun. The Nutcracker was definitely our favorite part.

Emilie and Eleana


Carousel at the Museum

Emilie waiting for the play to start, plus
I found out we were not aloud to take pics.

















Olivia participated in a 6 week Volleyball camp at the HS, the HS volleyball team helped out. On the last day they had a tournament against the other girls there, they had around 60 girls, 2nd -3rd graders. Each team was able to play 7 games on that day. Olivia is already talking about next year. She enjoys the sport.









Olivia also had a school project that we had to work on as a family. She had to make a diorama of what Christmas means to our family. Then she had to take it to school to show in class and display in the hall until Christmas break.
Hay, animals from everywhere in the house and
graham crackers crushed for dirt and road.

Tree with a present, says To World
Love, God

Baby Jesus with animals.