Just wanted to give a quick recap of Thanksgiving and Christmas! We spent Thanksgiving in the mountains with my family and had a very white Christmas with Mark’s in Minnesota.
Ellie celebrated Thanksgiving with her first rice cereal!
yum yum... i love my rice in cereal form
poor grandpa got a fussy ellie
quality time with uncle richard
ellie discovered her reflection for the first time!
sweet smile 
Ellie and Mark looking for her first christmas tree at the christmas tree farm
its an outhouse... and we took a picture in front of it.
The fruit of our christmas tree hunting expedition. This tree is actually much nicer than our first 2 years' trees! haha
The following pictures represent about 90% of the time i spent in Minnesota…. just looking out Dean and Peggy’s back window. I could just watch the snow all day. And I had plenty of opportunity to watch snow on our trip as there was lots of it!
snowy day walk
i think the trees are so beautiful!
check out those outfits!
little snow angel
ellie making her pretty girl face in her christmas dress
all dressed up with grandma!
this hat was from aunt martha for christmas!
Norman family reunion!
christmas eve meal
snow shoeing
this was a HUGE snowman that we saw on our walk
This is Aaron and Kristy's dog Lena playing in the snow! She almost blends in
And just like that, Ellie’s first Thanksgiving and Christmas were over!
Loved looking at the pictures!! Fun memories!!
Lena is so honored she made it in the blog! (I’m catching up on all things NC-Normans, right now.) =)