Year end catch up...

As much as I've tried, I can never seem to post about our holiday right after it happens. This year especially! We decided to let Brooklyn have a friend party (coming soon), so after all of the Christmas fun we had to get ready for that. Here is a little review of more of the fun we had in December!

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Making cookies, always a tradition we do come any holiday time. The last few years we have had Faythe and Hayley over and it had been fun for the girls to do



Made gingerbread house with my girls & the Buckley boys!

Family parties & Christmas Eve

Christmas Day spent with family

This was one of my most memorable Christmas's. I hope you all had as great as a holiday as I did!

Have a Very Merry Christmas!!! :)

Love, The Gerritsen's

Breakfast with Santa

Our ward had a Breakfast with Santa for the kids this year, and my girls had alot of fun. We had pancakes, singing time, story time and a fun visit with Santa! Santa gave each child a little treat sack, and took pictures with him. I have to post a picture of Addison from last year to show you what happened, I wasn't sure what to expect this year!




 

Brooklyn & Santa!





YAY! She loved Santa!!





 









Deck the Halls

Brooklyn & Addison had so much fun decorating the tree this year. Of course we had to do a little re-arranging so that not ALL of the ornaments were at the bottom!
Each year it's tradition for the girls to get a new ornament for the tree. Brooklyn picked a heart ornament with Belle on it, and Addison picked one that was from Charlie Brown Christmas. We also put up our village this year since Addison was older now. So far she's been really good with it! Our house is completly Christmas-fied!!! :)

Girls just wanna have fun...

My girls have been wanting to play in the snow for SO long now. Over Thanksgiving our whole house got the flu bug so we kept ourselves indoors for those few weeks. They kept themselves busy by pretending they were outside.... Now we just need another snow storm to bring us back some snow in our yard!




Brooklyn dressed her cute little self this day....yes, her pants are too short! :)

 



Even had time to dress up the animals in their Christmas attire....



Sweet Dreams....

We were just about to go get Brooklyn from preschool and I found Addison like this.....

I guess she was tired! :)

Indian Day

At Brooklyn's preschool they have some fun ways to celebrate the holidays. Her teachers usually dress them up for the different holidays and take pictures to give to us! This is Brooklyn coming home from her Indian day, she also got a bow and arrow. The following week they were having their Thanksgiving party, so they also dressed them up as Pilgrim's and had pictures taken. Pretty fun! I know Brooklyn loves it!

Halloween 2010

Halloween was SO much fun this year! Saturday we had our Evans Halloween party & also our Ward Trunk or Treat. For our party we had some games for the kids and some yummy food to eat. We had quite the turnout for costumes this year, myself included...which actually made it really fun. After our family party we went over to the church for our Trunk or Treat/Fashion show. The Primary kids walked down a little runway and showed off their costumes, then they did their trick or treating inside since it was raining. It was quick & easy!
After we stopped by Grandpa & Grandma G's house to visit and went home for the night. Sunday we had a spooky dinner at Grandpa & Grandma G's house to end our fun weekend! Decorations are already down, and ready for the next holiday! I love this time of year!!!

Halloween contest

I entered Brooklyn into a halloween contest over at Hairstyles for Girls on Facebook. You must "like" their page, and then the child who gets the most "likes" on their picture will win. I believe she is doing 3 winners. So, PLEASE go over HERE, and vote for my cute little sleeping Snow White!!! (This was last years costume, Addison wore it this year!)

THANKS!

Preschool Halloween parade

Last Thursday, we went to Brooklyn's Halloween parade at preschool. Teacher had each child walk out and show off their costumes & since Brooklyn was Cinderella she got to say "I lost my glass slipper", they sang a few Halloween songs for us, then they all paraded around to the "Monster Mash". After they served donuts & gave all the kids a big bucket full of goodies. They always do such a great job with these kids!