'Tis the Season to be busy

As usual at this time of year things are busy busy busy. Here are some shots of what we've been up to.

We tried the Santa thing again at my company Christmas party. She was still pretty scared.
But she LOVED the present he gave her.
Here she is with one of her teachers at the daycare's Christmas social. Apparently Santa visited there too, so Maeve asked her teacher to hold her.
Here's one of her teachers from when Maeve was in the toddler class.
Pat has been putting our snow blower to good use clearing the 3 foot walls of snow and ice that the snow plows have been leaving at the end of our driveway every time it snows. The driveway and walk are easy enough to handle with a shovel, but the end always gets a giant wall of heavy, slushy, icy snow. He actually had to chop a 2 foot by 4 foot block of ice apart with our axe to get it out of our driveway.
Maeve was super excited to decorate the tree.
We had to do a little bit of redistribution afterwards as most of the decorations ended up around the very bottom of the tree on one or two branches.
Maeve wanted her hair in pony tails on Sunday. I told her she looked just like her reindeer.
We had Pat's family over for a preChristmas games night on Sunday. Here we all are crammed into the kitchen for a family photo.
Maeve wanted to have her hair up with her pretty dress on. She looked like a brunette Cindi Lou Who.
Here she is hamming it up for the crowd. Our little centre-of-attention.

Thank goodness we're on vacation from Christmas Eve until January 5!