It's a Christmas Un-Miracle!

Somehow we made it through our child's second Christmas and captured less than a handful of decent photographs. Here's what happened: we trekked down to Arkansas and alternated spending time with Mark's parents and my family, which includes eight adults, a six year old, a four year old and three one year olds. Throw in a dog and a cat for good measure and you've got a Hayward Family Christmas. This will give you the general idea:

What you see here are Lindsay, Zoe, Nora, Clare and Mark all helping with Frances's bath. You can't see Frances, of course, because she's hiding in the bath hoping to avoid drowning in all the "love."

Frances did love all the new toys to explore. She was particularly pleased with this vacuum.

If only it had been her vacuum, and not her Cousin Zoe's...

We took all the cousins down to the Fayetteville Square to check out the lights and festivities. The big cousins got to ride ponies and the very big cousins got to ride camels. Frances got a cookie (you can see it in her right hand) and a walk around the block.

She was tickled pink.

That's it, folks. Just about all the photos from the trip. No family photos. No shots in front of the tree. Despite the lack of photos, or maybe because we didn't bother trying for happy group shots, we had a great time and are actually looking forward to next year, so not bad!