christmas2003
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This year the girls started to understand the whole "santa"
concept, especially the "we get presents" part..!
Here they are waiting for Santa... |
| MJ thought we needed a little more perspective on the season; so Caky got this for us. We installed it on the roof of the garage (and i think it was visible from at least 30,000 feet...!) |  |
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Terrific shot of Jaimee our nanny and Taylor, getting ready for the xmas card picture... |
| The girls came with us to get the tree and they were a big help as you can see here... |  |
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This about sums it up- dad removes the tree from the mom-wagon, while the girls run around in the background and the grinch oversees it all... |
| Our Christmas tree, circa 2003. |  |
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MJ is always looking for arts and crafts projects for the kids. She was really pumped to build this gingerbread house! (she actually did the whole thing from scratch- mixing and baking the ginger bread, cutting out the sides, etc...) |
| Patsi and Kevin came over to help the girls decorate the house... what a mess! There was colored, granulated sugar everywhere...but everyone had a great time! |  |
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As shown here, Taylor and Jordan both ate a bunch of blue frosting. The scary part about this picture is that you can see what they're going to look like as teenagers...! |
| It's important to be an educated consumer at christmas- here's the girls studying one of the barrage of catalogs we got this year. |  |
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We had all the grandparents for christmas eve. Here we are at dinner- from the left, it's Joepa, Jordan, Jean, George, Caky, Taylor and Dave. |
| Grandpa Dave enjoys Taylor and the talking cow. |  |
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After the girls went to be, Santa brought the train table. Here's George and Joepa trying to figure out a track arrangement that fits and makes sense. |
| The tree, after santa came but before the girls got up... |  |
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Taylor on Christmas morning, trying out her new swim mask. |
| Later on in the day, we went over to Patsi and Kevin's for dinner. Here's the girls with their friend Allison watching a video. |  |
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Kevin apologized before they opened these... we'll forgive him eventually ;-) |
| Becky got some kidConnectx for the girls and they really like them... |  |
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The train table, as delivered... |
| 2 days after christmas, George's whole family came up for Italian night. Everyone was here (including ex-brother in law Tom). |  |
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At this event, we eat until we drop- here's the girls learning about this important Hill family tradition. |
| We brought the grinch in and dried him off before putting him away until next year. George couldn't resist blowing him up one more time...! |  |