Monday, January 5, 2015

Christmas 2014

For Christmas this year, the Bells came down from Raliegh and Riley came from Utah and spent the holiday with us, Mom, Dad and Halston.

The Bells were able to meet Isabelle:




The kids were able to make gingerbread houses with Nonnie:



On Christmas Eve, we ate our traditional dinner of potato soup with poppy seed ham and swiss sandwiches.


Then we did our Brown Family Christmas cantata and watched It's A Wonderful Life.




Here's our (sort of) nativity:





On Christmas morning, Chandler and Isabelle were excited to come out and see what Santa brought!




And then we headed over to my parents to open presents with the rest of the family.





Chandler's big, crowning presents this year was Woody and Buzz because he is super in to Toy Story (which he just calls WoodyBuzz). He LOVED them!



Tanner got Buzz, too!


Chandler is probably the only kid in the world who would want to take a break from opening presents to play with his new ABC puzzle.


Isabelle was a sweet angel watching all the festivities!




We spent the rest of the day eating delicious food and enjoying our new gifts! And then in the late afternoon, we were able to skype Hunter from his mission in Washington!


And, or course, I had to do a photo shoot of our best Christmas present under the tree:






We had fun doing lots of random things over the holiday like swimming and going to the aquarium!






Isabelle's First Bath!

Most newborns hate their baths, and I really thought Isabelle would because she hates being cold. But as it turned out, she LOVED it! She looked around contentedly the entire time and never made a peep. She has loved every one since, and Chandler loves to help me by wiping at her feet with a little wash cloth.

I hadn't gotten Isabelle her own bath stuff yet, so she got to use Chandler's blue newborn bathrobe...