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Ziggy and Giselle came over to open presents with us (which means Christmas "morning" happened around three in the afternoon). Giselle opened her first present and was so stuck on that, she could hardly open anything else. This is when she was reaching out to tell Grandma to help her get the toys out. Note her super-fine, un-corn rowed hair (o:

Giselle was walking by and Mark picked her up and kissed her. It was adorable and one of the rare times I managed to get a picture of Mark.

This may not SEEM cool, but that's been a giant sliding glass door my whole life. The screen kept coming off the track and it was annoying so we didn't use the door much. Now we can use the door again. I almost posted a picture a month or two ago of the process of replacing the doors and how we just had cardboard instead of doors, but decided I didn't really want to advertise the lack of locks on our house (o: It was great, though, opening the cardboard and trying to get it to not fall.

It snowed. All day long. Those are some snow-covered trees in front of my house. It's also dark, of course, because we work looong hours.

Dan came over and let me wear his fedora, so of course I had to try to get a mirror picture of us both.

Giselle had a new Christmas dress on. Jenny wanted me to take a picture of her in it. This is what she did every time I pointed the camera at her. Today was not a picture day for Giselle.

We have very few ornaments left after the fire (yes, I know, years ago. We haven't replaced many, either). At least Jenny's ballerina survived! In other good news, I've managed to get out of seeing The Nutcracker this year!

We had some members of the Tabernacle Choir sing at the lunch I went to. Sorry soprano that the mic goes through the middle of your head! I was not willing to stand up to get a better picture.

I went with MamaLynne's office to have at Granato's. It was SO good. They have a mural of Tuscany painted on the wall to the right, so it felt just like we were in Italy (o:

We had our division Christmas party at work today. We were supposed to bring mugs for the mug competition. David forgot his, but that didn't stop him from creating a mug masterpiece from a Styrofoam cup, crayons and assorted office supplies.

Melanie gave me a gift for Christmas in this box. I carefully got my gift out (which was a struggle, because I would NEVER carefully open boxes to see what's inside!), put her gift in and made it look just the same. She carefully got her gift out and put her grandmother's gift in. We're getting a lot of use out of that gift.

My department had its Christmas party. Alexis and SueAnn were super-excited to be there!