Pre - Christmas

Spent an evening with a friend from college who we don't get to see very often. Grace is a faithful watcher of their blog.

Grace and her long distance best buddy Ella.

Great to have friends back in the area for Christmas.

Snuggling with the snowman on the stairs.

Some good teamwork.

Helping with the lights. I bought one of those testers at Walmart to help identify where the problem is in a string of lights. Waste of money, but Grace used it all night to "test" the lights.

Grace is really into helping. Especially in the kitchen. She was a big help getting hot chocolate made for the people we had over to watch the Christmas parade in front of our house.

It took a little ingenuity to figure out how to get a piece of cheese and still keep the mittens on.

Grace and her cousin Zach keeping warm.

Grace's first haircut. (Just a little - it's all we could take.)