


| Tessa's fourth Christmas!! They get more and more exciting as she gets older. This year is the first year she has understood Santa. She knows that he comes to your house to bring presents! She doesn't quite get the naughty and nice part yet, but I suppose she has the important part down! She has loved everything to do with Christmas. She helped decorate the tree, loves watching every Christmas special on the TV, and even helped pick out a few presents for family. Christmas morning was just too funny! Santa left a present on Tessa's bed to get her started, and it confused the heck out of her! She walked into our room with a weird look on her face, asking who the present was for (she thought it was for Papa and Mema). After she figured it out, she thought it was 'too cool'. She came downstairs and just gaped at the tree - it took a couple of minutes to sink in before she could open anything. But then it was game on, and she got to work! She liked all her presents - the favorite was either a little set of dress up tiaras and jewelry or her new playhouse that she shares with her sister. |















| Christmas Eve Dinner! Thanks for the ham Grandma V! |
| Helping mom with Christmas cookies |
| The pretty tree and presents before Tessa got to them... |
| Opening presents with Daddy |
| Helping my sissy open presents-she's still not very good at it |
| Hmmm...whatcha got sissy? Do I need to steal it? |
| Digging in my stocking! |
| Mom, I'm too busy for any pictures! |
| Ohh....princess toy with lots of parts...she loves it! |
| Merry Christmas Zach!! |
| And you thought he was crazy before catnip... |
| The new playhouse! |
| Into the house, straight to the phone... |