Chanukkah 1st night & Shabbat

Chanukkah (however you want to spell it) started Friday night, so we also had Erev Shabbat. This means, LOTS and LOTS of candle lighting, hee hee.

Ali helped light the shabbat candles first...



Then Ali and Alex got their turns to light the 2 hanukiahs....



Then presents! Alex got a playing cards set, war and old maid are definate favs. Ali got stationary, which she set immediately to writing letters. Dawn got a cap and mittens. I was shocked at how excited she was, she modeled for us all evening.


(note the chocolate from the donuts all over her face, LOL)

And of course we had latkes and chocolate donuts...we love our "Fry Daddy" this week every year. Dont let the name fool ya, ma still does the fryin. Playin Old Maid while we snack.





We ended the evening with dad reading from the story of the Maccabees. Sleepy prego mom, fell right to sleep, so I didnt get any pictures of that.