Christmas Eve, B put out her reindeer food that also had sparkles in it so that the reindeer could find our house easier! Part of our Christmas morning tradition is that the girls are not allowed to leave their room and go into the living room without us to see what Santa brought them. This is because I have to set up the video camera and follow them to catch their reaction! This is something that my parents did every year and so I continue it with my children! Our "elf on a shelf" who is named Brewster hung around to share Christmas day with us. I know he was supposed to head back to the North pole Christmas Eve but he became such a part of the family over the weeks leading to Christmas that we just had to ask him to join us on Christmas Day! :)

The only thing I wanted for the girls from my parents this year was a table and chairs, BUT not just ANY table and chairs. It is the set that my mom got for Christmas when she was a little girl, then her and my dad recovered it and gave it to me for Christmas when I was a girl, so this year my dad recovered it and they gave it to the girls for Christmas!! I was so excited!!!

We also bought the books from Hallmark for each girl and mom and dad recorded their voices on it, so now any time they want to hear E-maw and Papaw read to them they can open the books!

We got the Kinect for Christmas! The last 2 pictures are B, Joe, and sis playing games. I have to admit that I enjoy it as well. B does really good playing it so I don't mind her learning and playing games on it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had our annual Christmas Eve gathering and it was fun as always. It is so great to watch all the kids open their gifts and run around with each other! In the second picture they are, in their words, "organizing the presents before we open them"!

 

 

WOW, it was SO hard to get a picture for our holiday cards this year! B actually did awesome, but L was not having it. It was like a 3 ring circus trying to get her to cooperate. It was so bad that I decided not to do cards, but at the last minute and some major cropping I was able to put something together!!!

 

 

This year was another family Santa picture! I so can't wait til the year that I don't have to be in the picture because we all know I don't care for having my picture taken!!! The girls did really good but were very scared of Santa, but had a blast playing the winter wonderland!!