1st Christmas

So Gwen's first Christmas is the day after tomorrow! Tomorrow we start alot of our own traditions with our new little family. We each have a pair of pajamas under the tree to open tomorrow night and wear while we bake cookies and decorate them together and then snuggle up while we watch The Grinch with all of our friends. Okay, so Gwen probably won't help decorate too much, but she will help eat!!

I decided Gwen probably needs more friends as she has recently started trying to make friends with the vacuum cleaner...I kid you not. The vacuum cleaner comes out to play several times a day now that Gwen is eating almost all normal foods. Graham crackers, meatloaf, bagels, corn, you name it and it has been smashed into our carpet this week alone. Gwen likes to stroke the vacuum and even offers it her toys. At least she is not terrified of it, right?

She is more active with some of her toys that I think she did not fully understand how to work before. She site in her corner and laughs and laughs at them. It always makes Steven and I smile at each other as we wonder what is going through her head. Gwen went to see Santa for the first time and she got a quivery lip, but did not cry. She definitely did not like him though. I was majorly disappointed...he did not have a beard! All of her first shots with Santa and he doesn't even look like the real thing. We decided to tell her that he was on a Marine base so he had to shave to keep up with the Marine Corp regulations.

I made this card for her in honor of her first Christmas. I really wish I had some Christ-centered Chrsitmas stamps, but they don't make nearly as many as they do snowflakes, snowmen, presents, etc. The one I HAVE to have one day is called City of David by Stampin Up, but it is retired so I will have to get it off ebay or something similar.

This one is made using the sets All in the Family (a stick figure set I just got) and Flaky Friends (a retired set). Steven says I need to add about 30 more presents to make it more realistic. :)