Five Christmas's Later

Full disclosure: this will be a marathon post.  I had thought about making the following into a few posts, but in the end determined a marathon weekend = a marathon post.

 Christmas weekend is always busy, as I'm sure it is for a many, many people.  We have the added excitement of celebrating Natalie's birthday as well.  In truth, it was a great weekend which started out very non-traditionally with a holiday haircut thanks to bubblegum. See the culprit.

Doesn't she look a little too proud of the gum in her hair????

In truth I think both Natalie and I are happy with the end result - I mean, isn't she cute??? (Not that I'm biased or anything....).  Hopefully she won't put gum in her hair every time she wants a new 'do'.

Following the haircut and change into Christmas clothes, we had a mini-photoshoot (enjoy grandparents :o] )

Thanks Nana and Grandad for the coats!

Christmas day in our house will always be extra busy, because Natalie's birthday is also on Christmas day.  To combat this we try our best to schedule the most low-key day possible.  It started off with muffins....chocolate muffins.

Followed by presents and FUN :)

 

Then we transitioned to celebrate Natalie's 5th birthday!!!!  I can't believe she is FIVE - where did that time go again????

And here she is fighting for her loot...who knew Papa was such a fan of bath toys???

And enjoying the rest of her presents.

And now we (the parents) are tired., despite the relatively low key day.

We hope that you all had a very Merry Christmas.  We are so very blessed and thankful for this year and wonderful season.