the rest of the christmas photos

OK, I finally finished going through our photos. I have for you the remaining Christmas memories...

Lottie Sue's Christmas dress looks like the outfit the Rockettes wear. I loved it and she was soooooo cute. Lottie Sue had a great time on Christmas Eve, she loves attention and got plenty of it.

here she is saying "OOOOOH" over a present

here's the outfit sans the shoes, but still cute

Here are a few of Lottie Sue around GranBunny and GranRay's tree.

sweet girl

Then it was present time...

bb helps lottie sue unwrap

grandaddy gets a clapper

granray and granbunny open their loot

another baby??? yes!

moi and my little lottie sue

And here we have Christmas morning, Santa brought Lottie Sue a dollhouse. She liked it a lot, and she was all about opening gifts. She has too much, you can see how the den is overflowing with toys. We have since then cleaned up a bit! But she still has too much.

a doll house for a doll, it's perfect for her at this age

the severed head is from becce and mike, lottie sue knew just what to do

a music box with a ballerina from the apples, lottie sue loves to open and close it
(she'll do it 40 times in a row)

Here we have the opening of the stroller, notice her face - she was very excited.

see ya

And here she is with her spiral toy thing, a gift from Aunt Judy and Uncle Johnny. She was squealing while playing with it. The first photo in the sequence is totally Lottie Sue, she is such an expressive little girl. She gets so excited over everything.

she plays with this a lot

We went to Grandma's for Christmas dinner, she made WAY too much food but it was good. She spoiled Lottie Sue but it's her job. Lottie Sue was sitting in a literal pile of presents.

we should be good on clothes and toys for years now

Cera was with us over Christmas but the only photo I have of her is on Christmas morning and she has major bed head, not sure if she would still love me if I put it out into the world. But I may put it up anyway. We had a great with Cera and I really hated to see her go, I miss her terribly. Poo poo poo.

Matt was home for THREE weeks in a row, amazing. It has been wonderful squared. He really got into making his own beef and chicken stock. He spent many hours making the perfect broth. He's adorable. Right now he is making his famous french onion soup and homemade french bread. He starts his travel back up tomorrow though so I'm back to my own cooking (it's sad, people). I may pack myself and Lottie Sue up in a suitcase and go to DC with him.

This week I'll have several posts to publish, we have a lot of photos from the past few weeks. The holidays and all of the visitors gave us lots of photo ops. I hate it that I didn't get any of Cera! Ooh, I think I do have one of her at dinner one night but I'll have to check my phone. Matt's mom also gave us a ton of Matt's old drawings, I am going to scan them in for your enjoyment. The drawings really are great, but it's the subjects that crack me up (Lionel Ritchie, anyone?). And I have tons of photos of the Linker family, we - when I say that I mean John and Matt - cooked DELICIOUS food (no joke, high gourmet), played games and went on a trip to the zoo.

I almost forgot, this year I sang in our church's Christmas Choir. I loved loved loved it. I had so much fun and it was a wonderful way for me to celebrate the reason for the season. God has blessed me with such a wonderful family, I can hardly believe it. Here are a few photos of me la la la-ing.

count four rows up and second from the left - that's me

outside warming up - la la la la la la laaaaaaaaaa

OK, I'll zip it for now. Matt and Lottie Sue are playing "baby" while daddy watches football. Lottie Sue is wearing her bloomers on her head (she insists upon it), so I need to grab the camera. ..