Marcille Madness: A perfect little Marcille Christmas!

Happy New Year to all! Best wishes to you for a blessed 2011. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas holiday, we certainly did! You can only imagine the anticipation and excitement around our house in December as the countdown to Christmas came, and then went. We were fortunate to spend our first Christmas as a family of five in our own home. The boys participated in several activities at preschool, church, and home, and of course, our visit with Santa! The Elf on the Shelf appeared again on Dec. 1 and Jay and Andrew rushed downstairs each morning to find him in his new spying spot for the day. Best of all, it snowed in Atlanta on Christmas, in all we had about 3 inches on the ground - the first white Christmas here since the 1800's! The boys loved our wintery weather and Jay and I got out to build a very small snow-elf. On New Year's Eve, Scott and I headed out on our own and had dinner with friends before heading to a party. A perfect adult end to our holiday celebration. Again, best wishes to you for a prosperous, healthy, and happy 2011! love, Martha

Ahhh... Christmas Eve cocktails for Mr. and Mrs. Claus.

Jay and Andrew at their new play table. Thanks PM and PD!

Our family portrait after church on Christmas Eve. We headed to Peachtree Presbyterian for a preschool service at 11am. The boys loved hearing the Christmas story in the sanctuary - Andrew is still walking around announcing, "Jesus is born!" After the 11am preschool service, we checked our children into the nursery and Scott and I went to a lovely communion service at noon.

Scott, Jay, and Andrew walking in the tunnel after church.

Frick and frack...eating cookies. yum!

Jay and I baking chocolate chip cookies for his preschool cookie social.

Holiday crafts! Jay and Andrew painted and decorated the frames at home one day and Scott decorated the gingerbread house with them. Jay insisted on putting the Christmas tree on the roof, as there are several Christmas trees on roofs around Atlanta: Northside Hospital at Perimeter and Alpharetta, and Macy's.