Advent: Home stretch!

With the Christmas celebration this past weekend, we let our advent activities fall by the wayside. I've therefore scrapped a few links off of the chain. Kenzie is getting excited now for the real Christmas. I think she's eager with anticipation of the gifts (after the little taster she got this past weekend). I do think however, that she gets just as excited about "giving" as she does in the "getting." I was proud that she was hunting for her wrapped artwork gifts for her grandparents rather than selfishly searching for another package for herself. She was so cute & proud to pass on her little gifts to everyone.

We have completed the following links:


A week-or-so ago, while shopping - Kenzie spontaneously saw a dog toy at a store and asked if we could get it for Zoey for Christmas. We did. It did not make it to the stage of wrapping, nor did it go under the tree. She immediately presented it to our dog, and we've played many a games with it since. The ball is already in shreds. Zoey goes through balls rather quickly.

Tonight, however, we debut our Christmas toes. We officially elevate ourselves to the ugliest of family feet on the web. Go ahead and nominate us if such a prestigious award exists. Doug's feet are just a horror. My feet are weathered from years of going barefoot in California - and although it's winter here...I'm still barefoot most days. Kenzie got her dad's feet...and my preference for walking barefoot. Poor girl has some expensive pedicure bills in her future.



My toes were already red, so I just gave the gal some sparkles to embellish them with. She excitedly applied the "sprinkles" as she kept calling them.



And, well..you just have to love a man who'll do this without complaining. He'll really do anything for that little girl of his. Anything.



There you have it. Christmas toes. Red, green, and "sprinkles." I don't think I've ever seen merrier ugly toes.