Our usual family pic by the tree
This was Patton's favorite thing to do, pull out the lights from the plug. I've never had a baby more interested in electrical sockets. Good times. Look for a post about him being shocked within the next few months.....
Finally coaxed him to come see what he got
The girls helped him unload his stockings. He wondered why Santa didn't put anything to drink in his new cups.
He thought maybe he left it in the note
Berkley was overly excited about this little baby bottle
E got the keyboard she had been wishing for
Some mad libs in her stocking
P opening one of his family gifts
B loved her crazy hair doll from Elliott
Daddy with his girls
E's big gift from us was a Razor go cart. We had it hidden in the garage- when she found it we saw our neighbor Owen riding around on his that Santa brought.
Look for some pics of me on this thing coming soon....it is super fun and I am under the weight limit for it. Chris makes fun of me for riding it, but he's just jealous ;-)
After playing outside we came back in so Chris and I could open our gifts. Chris always has fun shopping when we have babies, he gets into their heads and figures out what they would see as a good gift. So Patton got me Cheerios, pacifiers and snack bars.
E got me workout shirts that I really needed! (in order to keep myself in gocart riding shape)
Berkley picked out a cute scarf and gloves
Patton sure loves taking pictures with people. Notice he's always happy in the ones of just him....I think he just doesn't like sharing the spotlight.
Grammy and Papa came over that afternoon to hangout and have dinner with us. Grammy and the girls had a lot of fun playing grocery store together.
Papa wrote out the music for Elliott for Mary had a little lamb so she could get to practicing.
The fun of having a real tree is that it needs to come down right after Christmas because it is dead and droopy. I dont' know that I ever blogged about how much fun putting the tree up was. I'll save you the long story and say between that and this below I might be going for artificial next year.
After we finally got the tree out of the stand (which included me holding the stand and getting dragged across the floor while Chris tried to pull it out). We then tried to wrap it in the tree bag (that was approximately 1/4 the size of our tree). Chris grabbed a mattress pad that was approximately 1/8 the size of the tree to wrap it in. I finally grabbed one of our king size sheets. Next we tried to pull it down the hall without scratching up our walls and the floor.
As you can see here - it didn't exactly fit through the walkway.
We had to smoosh the branches on either side and squish it through. Then we were left with this. Along with a hallway full of needles.
There has got to be an easier way and I would like someone to tell me what it is!
Here's E passed out that night.
Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!! Check out my photography blog on the side too- I posted our Fall pictures and my sister and brothers too!
