It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Get it? Look like Christmas? Look with my eyes? With glasses?

This is quality comedy for free here, folks. 
 

Christmas party number 1

Got to head over to Aunt Jeanne's house for the annual pre-Christmas feast, where we ate waaay too many cookies and found even more new hiding places to run around. I think this might be the only time that any of us kids were sitting the whole day long. 

Oh wait, there was that one other time we stopped for a minute!

 

Rocking out with Legos

I'm not sure where we're going, but I know we're both ready to party!
 

Christmas card outtakes

This is the nice photo that most of you should see arriving in your mailbox soon ...

And this is what happens when Dad asks if we can "look a little nicer" for the photo. 
 

More help with the lights

In retrospect, I really did not expect Dad to call my bluff here and let me onto the roof. I hope this all looks worth it later.  

Oh year, it totally does. 

First penance

We got a pretty nice day today to celebrate Emma's first penance, a pretty big step for her as a member of the church. No pictures inside the service, obviously, but she and I got to pose on the church steps to mark the occasion. 

And we walked around to our school's prayer shrine for Mary to say an extra prayer of thanks for the great day. One big sacrament down, onto first communion next!

Captian Hook likes to cook

Arrrrr, good nutrition keeps away scurvy.