Early Christmas

Christmas starts the weekend after Thanksgiving for us. We start playing Bing Crosby and can't wait to get out the decorations and the eggnog. The actual Christmas tree presents started pretty early, too, this year. We visited Papa, Grandmama, Aunt Kim, Uncle Don, and Hunter in early December. Emory got a present every day (usually princess oriented) and Santa brought her pink suitcase request early to Grandmama's Christmas tree. 

Hunter sporting his 4 X 4, which earned cool points from Emory, despite the Amish facial hair look. :) 

 Grandmama's Princess Party with the local little girls. I didn't know that it was possible for a 2 year old girl to talk more than Emory, but we found one in one of these little princesses. Here Emory is amazed with the many, many words.

This is truly amazing. Here is our buddy, Romeo The Horse. He has a new friend. A cat family came through the area, and one kitten decided he preferred horse life to cat life. He stayed behind and moved in to Romeo's shed while his cat family lives 1/4 mile away at a barn. They check on him regularly. But he seems just fine as long as he is near Romeo. He hangs out by Romeo's feet, in Romeo's food trough, or sleeps in the hay in the shed. Emory named him Caboo.

For Christmas we had the blessing of time with the Stouts (Brent's sister Dana's crew). We all had so much fun, and the kids loved their special cousin time. Yes, Emory has learned to pick her nose and she may be doing that in this picture. Oh, well.