A Very Merry Christmas!!

I am so behind on blog posts! A few months behind! Hopefully I'll get caught up soon so I'm going to start with our Christmas! It was wonderful and we had such a special time celebrating it with our ONE year old and our family and friends. Anna Leigh turned one a few days before Christmas (that will be it's on special post) so she was at such a fun age for Christmas. She was everywhere!

We decorated the Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving. Anna Leigh and I baked cookies for our little party!

Sugar cookies with red sprinkles..yum!!

Every year Anna Leigh gets a special ornament from her Mommy and Daddy. This year it was an angel. Here Daddy is helping her to hang her ornament.

A DeRieux family tradition...turing out all the lights and laying under the Christmas tree to watch it sparkle!

Daddy and Brinkley joined in and Mommy did too after she took this picture.

Riding the carousel with Daddy. We met Gigi and Pop for dinner and then we went for a ride on a reindeer!

Santa visits Anna Leigh's school and she loved him! The picture they took was so cute..much better than this one by Mommy since I was farther away.

Dancing with Daddy at The Club

Family picture

Ryan's family after our annual Christmas dinner at The Club

Playing with GanGan

This is what happened when we took her to go see Santa...she wanted Daddy

My family (including Granddaddy Hallmark and Aunt Wendy and Uncle Bruce) come over to our house Christmas Eve for lunch. Uncle Wooly and JoJo gave Anna Leigh the most special gift! They read The Night Before Christmas and recorded it for her! It was perfect and Anna Leigh loved it. She will listen to them read the story to her every year!

It is our tradition to have a wonderful dinner and open presents at Ryan's parents on Christms Eve. Playing with Beau in the laundry basket on Christmas Eve at Mimi and GanGan's

Christmas Eve...ready for Santa!

Still to come...another blog post from Christmas Day!