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Christmas Morning

Christmas Eve Jammies

Helping Grandma

Putting bows on the Christmas presents and putting them under the tree

Ok, so this one's not really helping. Lizzie's playing with the Hannukah candles, and Grandma is letting Lizzie use her fingers as a stand. :o)

Christmas Dresses

Today the girls got to wear their beautiful new Christmas dresses from Grandma Baker:

 

 

White Christmas

The girls' first experience with snow:

Snow

The weather forecast predicted the first snowfall of the season today. When we left Toledo this morning, there wasn't any snow on the ground--but we did come across a fair amount of snow as we were driving:

 

 

But yes, we made it safely to our destination. Yay! :o)

Fallen Timbers

Today we visited the monument at Fallen Timbers. It overlooks the site of a battle that took place in 1794. You can read about it here, but essentially, the end result was that Americans took land from the Native Americans, and that land eventually became the state of Ohio in 1803.

Bass Pro Shops

Yesterday we went to go check out Bass Pro Shops in Rossford. It was pretty fun.

We saw some really big fish!

We had a "snowball fight."

We visited the North Pole and saw Santa.

And Daddy taught the girls to shoot.

Oh, and there were animals too (taxidermied ones, of course).

Maumee Bay State Park

Today we went to the beach to check out Lake Erie (about 30 minutes from our house). The girls loved it!

With Grandpa Miller

The Beach

Hunting for Clams/Shells/Sticks

Drawing in the Sand

Building a Sand Castle

You can't really tell, but she is sliding down a mountain of shells. The tide washes literally millions of little shells ashore, and there's a huge ridge of these shells all along the edge of the beach. It's pretty amazing.

Decorating the Tree

 

 

 

Santa

Tonight we went to the ward Christmas party, and the girls got to meet Santa:

Christmas Tree Farm

This morning we went to Whitehouse Christmas Tree Farm and got ourselves a real Christmas tree. (It's between seven and eight feet tall, and it smells great!)


We got to pick out our Christmas tree!

And we ate hot chocolate and hot dogs.

And we got to see some animals.

We'll post some more pictures after we decorate this weekend.

Celebrate!

Daddy finished his last final of the semester yesterday, so we went out to a buffet to celebrate. The girls especially loved the Icees and cotton candy. (And Liz downed the Jello while Heidi ate like three servings of the mac and cheese.)

Queen Elizabeth

We do a lot of our Christmas shopping online, so we have a lot of boxes lying around. Lizzie decided to make herself a chair to sit on while watching TV. Scott likes to call it Queen Elizabeth's throne. He even taught her to say, "Off with their heads!"