My sister Claire the cross-stitcher

 I just have to brag about my sister Claire. She is the best Crosstitcher in the world. She cross stitched a beautiful piece for all of us for Christmas!

An elephant for Martha

A T for trey

This one for Hannah and Michael

A J for Jacob, and a J for John, and another J for James

The Beatles for my mom and dad... Awesome!

An A for Ashley, and an A for Abram

And a gorgeous citrus picture for us!

Thanks Claire! You rock!

Cousins in Pajamas on Christmas Eve

John absolutely adores his cousin, James Dimond, my sister Hannah's oldest son! 

John sees him as such a big boy and wants to be just like him

John followed him around kind of like a puppy all holiday. James got a little tired of it after a while :-) "But I don't want to share with John!" He would say sometimes

 From the left is James, then Abram shepard Dimond (just two months old), and John

John loves babies! And he was very gentle with Abram. He asked often "where's baby Abram?" And was very good at telling me when abram was sleeping or crying :-)

These boys are so sweet! They had such a blast on Christmas eve, as did we :-)