Christmas 2011

Meet Criddle! Major, Jaime, and Paige sent Madelyn The Elf on the Shelf. If you don't know about this, you should! It is a book explaining all about what the elf does, and comes with this adorable little guy, whom M named Criddle! He watches Madelyn all day and at night flies back to the north pole to report to Santa. When he returns in the morning, he moves to a new spot in the house. Criddle was a mischievous elf though, and did silly things during the night! Here he is in the fridge where he turned the milk red! Madelyn was so excited every morning to find Criddle and thought all the crazy things he did were hilarious! A few more examples are: Criddle made cookies and left a mess with the flour but also left one cookie for M, Criddle brought M a hershey kiss from the north pole, Criddle dumped out M's cereal, picked out all the marshmallows, and made a heart out of them, etc. etc. I can't wait until next year to see what Criddle is up to while we are all sleeping ;)

We made a quick trip to Clint's moms to see the family and exchange presents. Here is M with her cousin Jaycie. They are feeding M's new Baby Alive doll from Nana...she loves this thing!
Christmas at our house...with wet hair! We did our presents at night after bath time...
She said this was her excited face!
Then she slept in those pjs, and woke up early and wore them for the drive down to Sinton. She loves Baby Robert and Paige!

Granny and Papa got her a bike! When the bike was wheeled out, she yelled "I wanted a bike for Chirstmas!" She was so excited and I think has ridden it every day since...
We have a sort of white elephant gift exchange. This is what my dad ended up with...the hat and this lovely book :)
loving the massage chair!
BIKE RIDING!!