It's about time that I present you with a snippet of Christmas Gone Wild 2010. We are thrilled to be celebrating full-throttle this year after a slew of, let me just say it, crummy Christmases in a row. D and I showed Noemi photos of last Christmas, her first year with us, and we were reminded just how lame-o we felt. Um, can you say puffy eyes? Yikes. And puffy eyes from the year before that? Check. Too many loved ones suffering and passing on before us, too many sleepless nights with our transitioning baby, too many oil furnace puff-backs in a row destroying personal items, too much on-going construction in the place we live... oh, my. So glad to be in a new year with a fresh perspective. In celebration of the optimism that this year brings after shoddy Christmas pasts, we actually got off of our rear-ends and got a tree. The first in 5 years. Cheer abounds and we couldn't be having more fun. Just today I caught myself belting out holiday radio favorites with Noemi. Dominick the Italian Christmas Donkey? Hated it last year...slightly obsessed this year.
We're covered in greens, cookies, nativity scenes, glitter, paint, sprinkles and "pretty lights" here in the Witmer household. Heck, we even made tasty ornaments that we hung in our bush in the backyard for the birds (ok, well, actually the squirrels). I draw the line at granting Noemi's wish for the gigantic blow-up Micky and Minnie dressed as Santa lawn ornaments, but we're still celebrating large.
making star ornaments...purple, of course."more glitter, please. more glitter"
picking out our tree
Only one ornament was sacrificed in the decorating of our tiss-miss-tee."Noemi do it, Noemi do it self!"
Gingerbread lady-decorating fest with cousin Anna at Nana's house 
singing "Happy Birthday" to Jesus, unprompted
not sure what she was trying to communicate with this pose...
feeding the hungry animals (and a wise man) some pretzelsAnd now...because I love showing the world my undergarments...
From our home to yours, have a blessed Christmas!
