Merry Christmas 2012!!

"People were sleeping, we didn't care. Good news, we sang, our baby is here! Our baby has come, our darling one, Oh the day that you were born." (Little One, We Knew You'd Come ~ Sally Lloyd-Jones)

This book is easily one of our most soothing sleepytime reads with Ella. It was a gift from Danielle, Allen and Madrin as we arrived home with a sweet, chubby little baby Ella. And although it intertwines with our story, it is THE story anticipating the birth of Jesus. We are reading it a lot lately, as you can imagine.

At the last minute this year (finding this to be pretty typical fashion for me), the stars aligned for me to take Christmas card photos of Ella. She makes it hard. Really hard. And there are bribes of all sorts while I'm taking these...

 

 

The temptation to use this one was BIG.
 

The winner...

May your day be filled with laughter, good food and good people. Merry Christmas, Ella-Land. ~H