December pics you missed:

Alright - so I though we should update you on the goings-on of December (since you've heard just about the holidays). Here's our day-to-day December:

In this picture, Celia was lying down to get her bum changed and she told Tom she wanted to hold Sabrina's hand. Then she told Tom to get Bart because she wanted to hold his hand too:

We all got colds. In an effort to help Celia rest (and get rest myself), I told Celia that when we're sick, we get blankies and watch movies. This is her, two days after the cold was OVER, sniffling and insisting: "I still sick. I need blankies and watch movies all day." I let her watch one because she was cute:

When Sabrina is not eating or sleeping, she's smiling. And she's totally ticklish and cackles when we tickle her:

Our ward Christmas party was a "night in Bethlehem" where we all dressed up, got coins, paid for our food at booths, were taxed, etc. Celia looked kind of like a pirate, but she was really into dressing up, so we went with it:

Celia made us all pretend to "go nigh-night in Mommy and Daddy's bed" (when the sheets were being washed because of Sabrina's ever-present spit-up). Apparently Tom said something hilarious to Sabrina:

Sabrina will sometimes sleep until 10:30 AM if I move her to our bed after her early morning feeding:

We have the greatest friends ever who made us a delicious cake for our anniversary:

Celia went to yet another princess party as an even gaudier homemade princess. She was the only one there without a Disney princess dress. Luckily, she was just as happy and after she put on the three skirts she's wearing in the picture, she came up to me and said: "I look like Belle!" and I said: "yes, yes you do."

And now you're updated. We spent New Year's Eve with friends watching a live webcast of Times Square, so it ended at 8. It was still a little late for a party with kids and after the kids went down, Tom and I enjoyed a quiet evening eating crepes and watching Dick Clark's rockin' New Year's (which still ended at 11 here... perfect). We watched pretty professional-looking fireworks out our window. All of them would have been seriously illegal in Oregon. And now it's New Year's Day and Celia is walking around in jammies, high heels, and a princess nightgown over the top while watching "Monster's Inc." Sabrina is laughing at Tom and Tom and I are getting ready to take down the Christmas decorations. A day in the life...