This is how I found Alicia yesterday morning when I went to wake them up to get ready for church. I don't see how that would be comfortable. The best part is her chunky thighs squished between the bars.
Anne and Alicia loved "helping" us fluff all the branches. 
Both girls got the chance to help Dad with the lights. I feel so bad. My girls always look so casual and never fully dressed when I put pictures up here.
Dancing to the Christmas music was another favorite of the evening.
Alicia never seems to be full. She is constantly scavenging for food. The excitement of last night didn't change that.
Wonder how those pictures are going to turn out. She wore her dress-up dress the whole night.
After we were done with the tree and taking a break Anne decided that she needed to "cut" our toes nails. She even covered our feet with "blankets". I love how she sticks out her tongue when she concentrates.
What a face. She kept putting on her Gma's glasses. 
where you like a different on each different Sunday. On the last one all 4 candles are burning. Beate has a tape of music that she has listened to on the 1st advent since she was a child. So we did the same again this year. We eat treats, talk and drink hot chocolate while we listen to the music. It was a nice way to end the evening. 
Alicia wasn't so sure what she thought of the snow. At times she loved it and at other times she hated it. She had fun anyway.
Anne LOVED the snow. I haven't yet bought her boots or snow pants (hopefully this weekend), but loved it anyway. The cold didn't seem to bother her until she came inside. This was her first real opportunity to play in the snow. All the past years she was too little to really appreciate it.
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I really wanted to make a cake that I could decorate and make special for Jared's b-day. I found out that a friend had a cake form for a stadium and borrowed it. Jared loves soccer and his favorite team is FC Nürnberg) the national team from our city. So I decided to make it their stadium.
I guess Anne wanted to help by being the official frosting taste-tester. I think she like it.
We had absolutely everyone helping. Robby and Richy helped occupy the girls, Rike and Beate helped frost and were decorating advisors, and we enlisted Ray to help set up the gummi bears (the soccer players) in a convincing play position.
It is not exactly to scale, but you get the idea. I used sprinkles and things like that that for the spectators.
I loved this picture because it the candles that spell out "Happy Birthday" look like the huge light in a stadium.
One side was dedicated to FC Nürnberg, and the other...
...to FC Bayern-München, the arch rivals of Nürnberg. You can see what Jared did about that. 