The Whelchel Family: Happy New Year!!!!

Wow, 2011 already! We have been a very busy over the last 2 months. To start November, Emily (pictured with her dad) and Michael got married and boy was it cold. The kids were in the wedding and had a wonderful time. We are so happy for Emily and Michael.

Then there was the annual Pow Wow at school to kick of our Thanksgiving celebration. It was so special this year because we had a pilgrim and an indian in the show. I am always amazed at how well the kids do in the show. We had a great Thanksgiving lunch with my family here at our house and then visited with some of Lee's side of the family that evening.

After Thanksgiving our elf, Elfie, came to visit us. We had missed him so much. However, he did get into quite a bit of mischief when he was here. He managed to sneak quite a bit of candy and polish off the remainder of Lee's birthday cake. The kids have decided Santa needs to send an elf to watch our elf so maybe he will stay out of trouble.

December started with Davis' dedication at church. Which went quite well considering there were about 20 babies on stage to be dedicated.

Then our Gammy took us to see Disney Princesses on Ice. We had a great time. Even Jackson enjoyed the show. It helped that they were selling swords in addition to all the princess stuff.

We had lots of fun with friends.

We played with the Christmas decorations.

We celebrated Daddy's 35th birthday. Emme drew him a special card with a picture of him shooting a deer. I'm not sure how I feel about this but Lee thought it was great.

Emme sang in the Christmas Eve service at church. It was so sweet to hear all those little voices singing about Jesus.

We put out milk and cookies for Santa and also put reindeer food in our yard for his reindeer.

We posed for one last picture on Christmas eve.

We had a great Christmas day. We opened lots of gifts and visited with family. It is so nice just to be home for a few weeks with our family. We have had a wonderful holiday.

Staying in our PJ's all day.