WARNING...This post contains lots of pictures of our Christmas Celebrations

We had a great time celebrating Christmas this year. Enter this post at your own risk. I have put up a lot of pictures for my family that was unable to celebrate with us this year. The girls were really excited about this holiday. They were so aware this year of what Christmas means and what that means to them.

We started our Christmas morning, for the second year in a row, lighting our Advent wreath and reading out of Luke the Christmas story. This was all before they were to go downstairs and look at what Santa had brought. They were so patient again this year and I really love starting off the morning this way.

Mike's mom got Mike a table air hockey game. This was a favorite that morning.

All of the girls asked for Snuggies this Christmas and Santa delivered. I will say, I am NOT a fan of infomercials, but they are cozy little things.

The following are the letters written to Santa and left for him to discover. This is another one of my favorite things. I love to see what they each write to Santa and how it has changed over the years.

Morgan recieved a Razor scooter from Santa and rode it around the house all morning.



Getting into her presents from Grandma Nugent.

My brother, Chris hosted dinner on Christmas day this year. Here is my dad with the youngest Grand babies, Rachel and Drew.

Papa Kelbert with Nicole, Morgan and Jacob.






Some of my pictures are a little rough this year. I received a new camera from Mike and I am learning all of my settings.

This was the girls present from Mike's brother Brian, Uncle Brian. He had given each girl a different key. Each key has a tag labeled with the girls' names and says the following, "You have in your hands one of nine unique keys, each more than one hundred years old. This represents the key to your imagination. With it you can unlock your dreams and be anything you want to be. Please bring this key to every Nugent and /or Tepper family reunion as it will always connect you with any one of your six cousins. With love, Uncle Brian." I thought this was great.



Morgan inspecting the evidence that Santa had come.


Morgan is a silly girl. This year she is all about jokes and making us laugh. Before Christmas day she was telling me how it would be nice if Santa played a joke on her. So, she received a lump of coal in her stocking. Yes it was chocolate.


This is what our house looked like after opening gifts.


Rachel recieved her Whoopsie Do Doll. This is a doll when fed water/juice by bottle, it pees and poops. WHOOOO. How exciting.


Our tree this year. Lots of homemade ornaments. I try to get away with not bringing them all out. But my girls remember everything.

We wish you a Merry Christmas

Rachel's preschool class did some caroling at the New Haven Elementary school this week. It was a good thing there were two exact performances because Rachel would not sing the first time. When she saw that I had gum, she requested some. I, like all good moms, said "you can have some gum as soon as you sing!". Problem solved. I told her teacher, "I guess I am getting good at this bribery thing!"

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Well we are trying our best at the Nugent home, to get ready for the celebration of our wonderful Savior's birth. This year, December has had it's share of challenges and even though I am not working outside the home, I am feeling the time crunch more this year than ever.

Morgan had her winter recital this past Saturday. She did great. I was so proud of her. She played two French traditional tunes as duets with her buddy Kyle Knepper. They worked hard on these pieces and they played better than any other time they had practiced. Playing duets can be tricky, especially when you both have to get your timing and notes right. They did fabulous!


Morgan played at a recital hall at my alma matter-Oakland U.


These are the piano players; Kyle Knepper, Julia Knepper, Jenna Knepper and Morgan.

Morgan had just about had it with being serious. She is turning into quite a goof ball at times.

Hey Mrs. Carol, don't you want us to play piano for you also? This would be Tornado Knepper and Storm Nugent



We had our family Christmas cookie making night.




The newest addition to our family in these pictures is Jenni. She is living with us for a while. She is a youth ministry intern at the church. The girls LOVEEEEE Jenni. Not sure what is going to happen when she moves out.


We had been a little behind with our Advent wreath. But we were able to spend some time reflecting on how we are to prepare ourselves for the celebration of Jesus.

Hope you are getting some time to enjoy this December!