Merry Christmas!

Make a Smilebox postcard

Christmas Dresses Galore!

Grammie Jensen has been busy! She learned how to smock and decided that all 6 grand-daughters needed smocked dresses for Christmas. So in August we went hunting for fabric and she got started. The girls got to wear them to church today (December 21st) and they looked so cute! I think they felt pretty in their new dresses. Chloe just kept swinging her hips side to side to feel the dress swish against her legs. The smocking turned out gorgeous! We love them Grammie...THANKS!

Some New Christmas Traditions

As we start our little family down the path of traditions and things that we like to do around the holidays, I think we may have found a few new ones. We attended the Bountiful City Light Parade. Not the grand "sleep on the ground all night" kind of parade that the Schaff Family usually goes for, but a simple hometown good time. We sat the girls in the back of Papa Jensen's truck and ate pizza and drank hot chocolate while the 10-12 lighted floats passed by. The highlight was of course Santa on his sleigh at the end. Maybe next year there will be more floats to see. (We didn't get any good pictures 'cuz it was a little dark and the camera phones aren't great in the dark!)
Another new tradition was the Festival of Trees. All the money made at this huge event goes to benefit Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City. We went this year because cousins Lauren and Ella got to dance there. We then took some time to wander through the fun trees, gingerbread houses and of course the kids area...what a hit. Avery got to stand inside a bubble as big as she was, got her nails painted in candy cane red and white. She made a reindeer craft out of a paper bag and bought a gift for her Secret Santa at preschool. She loved it! Spending a night surrounded by family, Christmas trees and the spirit of giving really put us in the Christmas spirit. We even found a tree perfect for Grandpa Schaff! Too bad it was already sold!

Winter Fun!

Winter is finally here! Avery had started making her own snowflakes out of paper because we were worried it would not snow in time for Christmas. But we finally have some snow. And as per tradition...the snow man was built. We tried something new with the eyes this year and as you can see it didn't go so well. With black eyes and the holes that Avery Jane poked in his tummy we dubbed him "the gangster" snowman. Oh well... before the week was over a big wind blew his head right off. Now he stands headless in the front yard. Here are a few pictures of "gangster" and the family. We hope your snowman building efforts go better than ours!