You know, like doing Christmasy things? Thank you, Carpenter family.The Christmas tree is like her little jungle gym. She lays under it and looks at the lights and ornaments and we ring the little bells for her. She’s mesmerized.  See the gingerbread boy? Her face is saying “I’m gonna smack ’em!” (She did too, several times.)Fashions by Faith

Faith had her jewelry Christmas open house yesterday, & it was so much fun. She made a whole array of lovely Christmas goodies, & it was very nice to see lots of friends and visit a little.Having a chat with Pa. He calls her “baby baby”.
Faith recently started an Etsy page. If you’d like to, you can check it out here. She has a lot of pretty creations, and some great gift options too!Alia got to visit with Grandma Fish & took a nice long snooze. She loves parties for the noise – it puts her right to sleep 🙂Mimi’s other baby.Present wrapping

The first year we were married, I wrapped all the gifts. It would be fair to say I’m not the best gift wrapper. The the next year Landon offered to help, and I was amazed! Perfect creases, just the right amount of paper for each present (I always end up with too much or too little), and last night he was lamenting that he didn’t have double-sided tape because you can see the regular tape & it messes up the look :-/

Waiting to be wrapped
The master gift-wrapperMy job is writing on the tags now. I’m very okay with that 🙂Note to family: Kaden & I did wrap a few earlier, so if you get an ugly one, that would be one of mine 😉