Christmas festivities

We kicked off the Christmas Eve festivities with the Erickson clan:

My boys in a sea of Erickson girls.

the boys went wild over the "Dr. Shah" kit.

My boys have an unnatural fascination with shots. When I told them they were getting flu shots, they were jumping with joy saying "yay, we get to have shots!". Of course they cried when they actually got the shot.

John's ghetto Dr. kit for the boy's stockings.

The medicine dropper is quite the commodity around here--the boys always steal the motrin medicine dropper and pretend it's a shot. It's a good thing Finn is practicing medicine because his favorite present of all:

I'm not too thrilled with Finn's new found interest in money.

We later scooted up to Aunt Nanie's house for a fabulous Christmas eve dinner.

Lindsay, Jamie and I


Jamie got Ollie all to herself cuz Hayley was out of town.


Calvin and daddy(and of course orange kitty)

Can't they stay little forever??

Later on at mom's house for Christmas day:

Lorie got these adorable jammies for Ollie as a baby shower gift.

And here are some dish towels I embroidered as gifts. No RIT dyeing or sewing machines needed! Very easy and fun.

For Betty, since she liked giraffes when a missionary in Kenya


For mom, since she loves Olive(aka Fi-fi). She's Linday's Chihuahua, but lives with mom.
I actually own her tail.


For Lindsay--we're still figuring out the direction her new kitchen is going.

We had our 1st annual Christmas dessert at her house.