Sound a sleep
Made it through the night without falling out
Speaking of sleeping arrangements...
A few weeks ago, Brynn asked if Addie could sleep in the bed with her. After much debate, we said sure. 
We put the girls down, and waited to see what was going to happen. We could hear them talking and laughing at first. Addie banged her head against the wall a few times (which caused Brandon to want to go in and put Addie back in her own bed). I told him not to worry about. Alittle more laughing and then nothing...they had gone to sleep.
The next morning, on the way to school I asked Brynn if she wanted Addie to sleep with her every night. She quickly said "NO, she talks too much, and trys to play, and hits me. All I wanted to do is go to SLEEP!"
Fun she just wanted to go to sleep, when she begs and begs every night to please stay up just a tiny bit later she is not very sleep at all!
Most people had less, so we were pretty lucky.
Brynn couldn’t get out the door fast enough. She wanted to make a snowman and have a snowball fight. The problem was the snow was extremely powdery. 
Poor Addie didn’t have any snow gear. Her hand-me-down Keds have NO tread on the bottom, so she was slipping and sliding all over the place.
The trampoline seemed to have the most usable snow. 
The girls had the best time jumping and throwing the snow in the air.
Addie and I stayed out long enough to get pictures. We are not much for the cold weather! Brynn and Brandon stayed out a little longer. 
He came to our house while the girls were in the bath tub. 
Brynn named him Elfie (real original, at least it made sense. She normally comes up with off the wall names, but that is another story in itself.) He was very helpful in getting Brynn to behave. He left on Christmas Eve. Brynn did ask about him about a week later. She wished he was still her and wanted to know if we could have a girl elf next year. I explained that once we have an elf, the elf is ours forever and I didn’t think he would be changing to a girl next year.
When we got come and pulled out the decorations, I found a disaster! An ornament that was made like a snow globe had broken at some point during the year. The liquid inside leaked all over the other ornaments causing them to mold and rust. It was awful. Brandon helped me salvage most of them, but I did lose some sentimental ones. I told one of my client’s (a man) this story and when his wife and children came for their appointment, they brought me a box of new ornaments. I thought this was a very generous thing to do. This year our treed lasted nearly 7 weeks, we hardly had any needles on the floor. Brandon insisted we take it down before February!
Brynn had a Christmas party at her preschool. She had a great time. 
One of the mother’s made each child an adorable gingerbread ornament.
The week of Christmas, we made our typical trips back and forth across the county. It was nice to see everyone.
Addie’s favorite part was playing in ALL the wrapping paper 
and eating the goldfish!!
Christmas Eve night, Brandon read the girls the Christmas story from the Bible. 
We left the reindeer carrots and cookies and milk for Santa. Addie tried to steal the cookies. 
You can’t have ANY food out without her wanting some!
