Merry Christmas!

Hope you and your family had a wonderful day. We celebrated on Christmas Eve in Atlantic. Here are a couple of pictures from our celebration.

Us in Dubuque in front of the tree at my house

The whole DeArment Family

Reese and Aunt AngieThe girls learn about baby JesusMatching Pajama Pants for the whole family

Jason gets a new suitcaseReese thinks the scooter is for standingAddie knows what to do!

Time to go home

Jason and his Best Buddy

Jason has a shadow, his name is Garrett Keith and he is 2 years old. He loves Jason. According to his mommy, he asks about Jason all day long. Last night we celebrated Christmas with the Keith family, and I snapped a few pictures of the best friends. Garrett will be our ringbearer in our wedding, but if he were a few years older, he'd probably be a groomsman!Did I mention that Garrett has two big sisters? Adrianna and Alexis will be junior bridesmaids in our wedding. For Christmas, I wrapped up ten dollar bills in huge boxes for their presents. They thought they were getting clothes. What a relief to find cash!

I love that you can barely see Lexi behind the box in this picture!

Happy Birthday, Princess Addie!

Addison Maggie turned 3 years old on Sunday! She was sick with a virus this week but recovered just in time. We celebrated on Saturday with a pizza and princess party. Addie was decked out in her princess dress, light up crown, dangly earrings, and slippers.

The birthday girl with little sister, Reese.

The princess bids her guests farewell.

Jason and the Princesses

Jason came up with a great Christmas idea for my nieces: "Princess" scooters! So he went to WalMart and purchased the scooters on his own and then put them together the other night. I thought it was pretty cute to see Jason, an anti-pink, anti-princess, anti-girly kind of guy slaving over pink scooters for two sweet little girls! Hopefully they won't check our blog and figure out what they are getting for Christmas...hee hee!

"You aren't really going to take my picture, are you?"He even read the directions!

Testing out the first one...

The finished product The unsuspecting future princesses

Christmas Greetings...

Our attempt at a Christmas Picture:

Not bad, eh?
Merry Christmas everyone!

Blast from the not-so-distant-past...

Jason and I started dating in November of 2005, so our first Christmas together was last December. He drove to Atlantic on Christmas day and met my family, spent the night, and drove back to Dubuque the next day. He was so nervous to meet everyone! Truthfully, so was I! My family immediately liked him so the rest is history. It is still amazing to me how quickly things can change in just a short year. This Christmas, we will be spending a full week in Atlantic.
Here is our "first photo" by the tree at the DeArment house.