Our Merry Christmas!

What Trinity said when she saw all the goods on Christmas morn:
"WOW! LOTS OF PRESENTS!!!"

Cheesy little girl!

Exactly what she wanted.

Whoo hoo! a tu-tu!

Fancy fancy

Trin was feeling very princessy in her new gloves, and just had to give her prince a kiss!

lookin good....

Merry Christmas roll wreath.

The WHOLE fam! Eliana is hiding behind a glass. :)

Martinellies sparkling apple cider with cranberries.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

T'was the night before Christmas

Usually we go to Mesa for Christmas Eve and spend it with my mom's family. This year we decided to spend it at home, due to a stressful week, and the thought of being stuck in the car with our girls for 7 hours.
It ended up being a nice productive day, with happy children and the delicious smell of baking pies wafting through the house.

Someone is a LITTLE EXCITED at the thought of SANTA!!!!

It was also nice to be home early so that Trinity was able to leave out cookies and milk for Santa. When I woke her up on Christmas morning the first thing she said was, "Did Santa drink his milk and eat his cookies!!??!!"Christmas is just getting better and better every year with my wonderful children growing and their excitement growing with them. I wish it could be Christmas all year long...

like mother like daughter.

Every day my girls show traits in likeness to their mother. Me.
Eliana has found my love of shoes. And usually MY shoes, or any one's for that matter. She walked around the house for the longest time just wearing the one. :)
Trinity has found her love of taking pictures. As she demonstrated today while playing with my camera. And yes, she took them ALL herself. :D Even though some of them look the same, each and every one is different.

Nativity

Every year my dad's side of the family (Hamilton's) have a Christmas party in which we enjoy yummy food, a game of white elephant, and the most important part, we dress our children up for the reenactment of the night so long ago in Bethlehem when our Savior Jesus Christ was born. This year is was just all my family and all the Williams that were there.

My sweet little angels getting ready to head to Aunt Cyndy's and Uncle Gary's house.


Trin loves her angel costume SO MUCH it has become one of her daily outfits. (she changes and changes ALL DAY!)Since there weren't enough children to have a Mary and Joseph, Tatton and Rachel graciously played the roles. And yes, Joseph is flipping me off!


The whole cast.

Handsome little Holden wise man.

The innocence is a façade.

Every nativity needs a sweet little owl!

And a powerful wise man!

Cute cousins.

Overall the program and night was a huge success.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Snow Angels & Snow Man

5:45 A.M. Alex and I are stirred from our sleep my a little fuss from the girls room.

Alex: "Go check on her."

Which I do even though the fussing has ceased, only because lately Elli kicks all her blankets off and I don't want her to feel cold. After arranging the blankets and relieving my bladder, I half stumble back into my room to where an excited little boy has replaced my husband.

Alex: "BABE! Did you see the snow!?!"

Me: "nope." and although I love snow, I know the the girls will be up in an hour, I want to catch a few more winks.

But instead of crawling back into my still warm bed, I trudge into the kitchen to take a peek out the window. Snow. We go back to bed, but the excited little boy next to me is busy chattering about snow, and how we should get up and go take pictures! But I, having grown up here, know that the snow will still be there in an hour, so I roll over with a grunt. After further pestering me about snow and OTHER things, I manage to ignore the boy/man next to me and fall back asleep. I didn't even notice that he got up to shower and get dressed until that blessed hour later when Elli really woke up.

When Trin woke up and came into the family room this is what took place.

Alex: "Trin look outside!!"

She has been wishing for snow for a while.

Alex & I "IT SNOWED!"

Trinity: "I just couldn't wait!!" Her eyes all lit up.

The light in her eyes dims as she looks over at our Christmas tree.

Trinity:"Why didn't Santa put any presents under our tree??"

Me: "Cause to day isn't Christmas morning, it just snowed cause it's almost Christmas."

The light returns and Trin takes off to her room to get all her snow gear on.

And all day we were in and out playing in the snow, then coming back inside to warm up.

Trin's first snow angel of the season. Perfect.

Poor Elli was in boots a size to big and kept falling every couple steps. :)

Alex and Trin made this snowman together. There are 2 versions of Mr. snowman because Alex let Trinity pummel the first one. I guess he was teaching her self defense??

All day (in between snow pants and gloves) Trinity wore her angel costume that was from the previous nights nativity program and Aunt Cyndy's.

What a wonderful snow day!