Circle City Christmas

When your dad works in the car business, you get winter hats with a BMW logo on them. She didn't seem to mind. I'm sure she was thankful her ears weren't freezing. (side note: do you call them "toboggans"? we used to have this discussion with friends, who weren't from the south, that they were not toboggans because toboggans were sleds, and you certainly don't wear a "sled" on your head.)

A little break from swinging to look for the birds


Saturday night my Dad's family came over for a lot of food, a lot of presents, and a lot of chaos. We were missing a few cousins and spouses, but all nine great-grandchildren were there. A highlight for me was this sweet thing. Her mommy was at a wedding, but she and her brother came with their grandparents (my uncle and aunt). Her mommy and I look similar and it was obvious she thought so too. I got some sweet loving from her!

This is just classic. Trying to get nine children, most of whom are under 5, to sit still for 3 seconds, while holding little babies, and see if we can get even half of them to look normal. You see Elle was doing her part to make sure Reese was looking at the camera. My grandmother looks pretty thrilled about the photo shoot too.

"A present for me? How did you know I love musical fish?"

Opening presents the next morning with Dad and Sandi

Trying to get a picture of the three of them

Thomas was a hit!


I don't know if you can see it in the picture, but my husband is currently wearing two car key rings as a wedding band (another perk of working in the car business--all the key rings you need!). Why in the world would he do that, you ask? Well, he says his ring is too small. But now that I think about it, I haven't seen his actual ring in awhile. Perhaps this Christmas every kiss will begin with "K" in the Salter house. And on that note, I hope you are singing the Kay Jewelers commercial in your head.