Our Christmas Week

We had such a great week celebrating Christmas and remembering the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ. What a wonderful spirit Christmas brings, and we pray that we will be able to carry that same spirit with us for the whole year.

On Sunday we decided to decorate our gingerbread house. Going with the store bought one....so much easier, not as creative but SOOOO much easier. Sophie had a blast and had one heck of a sugar rush by the end.

Monday, for family home evening, we made approximately 10 dozen cookies and drove around to distribute them to friends and neighbors. (That's when Sophie played Santa--see below)

On Christmas eve, we did something I don't EVER recommend. We went to the mall!! And we didn't go to our tiny little mall in town, oh no, we drove to Mobile to go to a bigger mall. I know we are mentally insane, but we were determined to get Sophie's picture taken with Santa. Of course she absolutely refused to smile. But I guess that's part of the charm. We did have some fun while we were there though. Jon and Sophie rode the carousel, and than Sophie and I rode on this little train ride they had set up.

Christmas like always was a blur. We started our Christmas like always, with us reading the birth of Christ. But after that it's just one big haze. Later in the afternoon we went to our friend's Kari and Andrews to go play games with a couple of other families. We had so much fun and ate WAY to much food. Thank goodness the Larsen New Year's resolution is to get healthy.

I pray you all had a wonderful and safe Christmas and we wish you all the best in the New Year!

Luckily, she only ate about half the candy. Somehow she still managed to go to bed at her normal bed time.

How beautiful is she?!?!?!?! Thank goodness she gets her looks from her daddy.

I am so blessed to have such a wonderful little girl!

Santa in training.

Check out that face. Sophie you are supposed to be happy when you see Santa. (This was the best out of about 6 or 7 pics taken)

Twas the night before Christmas

Looks like Sophie was a good girl, and Santa was able to find our new house. Ho, Ho, Ho...Merry Christmas!!!!

Sophie checking out her stocking. As soon as she saw it she just yelled "Elmo" and took off running to get it.

Like Father like Daughter. Jon is absolutely determined to get her playing the guitar as soon as possible. Like yesterday would be perfect.

Sophie is showing off her new Wisconsin Badger sweatshirt and her rocking horse. My dad got us all Wisconsin sweatshirts.