Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Christmas

I had a nice Christmas. I got pajamas for my American Girl doll, and I got pajamas that look just like them for me. I got things for my dollhouse. Pa made me a wooden cupboard for my dollhouse. It's a small version of the one he has at home. I got lots of earrings! And a stencil art kit. And lots of other things.




I like making gifts for everyone. This year I made bath bags and hard candy. I made a few other things like candles, and I sewed a candy cane for Daddy.

We hosted Christmas Eve this year. We had all red, green and white foods. This year we baked gingerbread cookies, shortbread cut-outs and Swedish sandbakkels, and we made peppermint-chocolate bark.

In my last post I forgot to put a picture of us in our church pageant, The Grinch. So here it is.



And here is a picture of me and my friend, Winter, at our ballet show a couple of weeks ago.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Tarin ~
Thanks for posting. I love this blog where I can see what you are all doing! I check it almost every day.

Wow! I never heard of matching pajamas for little girls AND their dolls. That's pretty cool.

I would love to see your dollhouse some time. I think it's really fun to make small versions of big things. Carrie and Christie had a doll house that Uncle Kenny made and we used to make little rugs, pictures, and furniture for it out of all sorts of things, like bottle caps.

Instead of a red, green and white party on Christmas Eve, we have all white foods. It's fun to try to think of all the foods you are going to use for the party. For example, we could have had just popcorn! You could have had just candycanes and green grapes!

Your ballet picture reminds me of when Christie used to take ballet as a girl - and now she is a professional dance teacher. You never know what will happen when you follow your heart!

Happy New Year!
Love ~
Aunt Mary