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pardon the interruption from my enthralling 30 day post (which is obviously taking longer--much longer--than 30 days) but its time for a little holiday recap...

before we took our festive party cross-country to celebrate christmas in az, we had a little christmas cheer with mama and papa b:

once we landed in az the party didn't stop 'til 8 in the mornin'! well not really. it's more like it started at 4 in the morning...little annie mae's internal alarm clock was set for 4 am each morning for the first week, and slowly reset to 5:30 am for the last week. she gave us a christmas gift by sleeping in until 6:30 on christmas morning. that was the best gift we could've asked for...well, that and a new pair of running shoes.

annie's first christmas and she is already showing off her skills by winning the christmas present contest (santa and his elf might have been a little biased)

christmas eve:

leanne had made angel costumes for annie and claire to wear at the annual nativity reenactment. i'm pretty sure angel's didn't have binkies back then but when it's past the angel's bedtime and things get desperate, we'll trade tradition for peace.

it's not christmas eve without the stocking march!