::christmas came early::

we had a sweet sweet weekend of celebrating Christmas with our little family.  

we have the joy of celebrating with our smith and biber families over Christmas, so we had our own celebration on saturday.

it was a perfect weekend of making cookies for santa, reading "twas the night before Christmas," hot chocolate on our first ever staircase (just like 100 willow!), loving della may's first Christmas, reveling in the joy and wonder of Christ's birth, and being together.

our kids are at such a wonderful age to really enjoy the wonder of Christmas and also to be so eager to soak up the good news of Christ's birth.  it was absolutely lovely...