Our Christmas celebrations began after school on Thursday, making gingerbread houses at the Garrows.
Wishing for a White Christmas, we got a couple inches of heavy, wet snow on Friday and took advantage of the opportunity to build our first snowman of the season. 
Decorating our tree Friday night! 
Christmas Eve day at Tyler's house, followed by dinner at the Peters'.
Letter, cookie and milk for Santa! 
We're ready! 
Opening stockings while the sunporch warmed up. 
Then, onto the Big Gifts! 
One pooped out kiddo! 
Pumpkin Cereal-Bowl, the miracle hamster. I like to think I brought her back from the dead last night. Turns out that the room I keep her in to protect her from the Jaws of Death (Zoe) got too cold, and she went into hibernation. We thought she was dead. They call me the Hamster-Whisperer :-)
