Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Christmas Day!!!


Christmas Eve night!!! Woohoo!
Santa was a BUSY fella! :-)


 I try every year to think of something yummy that can become our traditional Christmas Day Breakfast! This year, I took the advice of a patient of mine and made Paula Dean's French Toast casserole. You are supposed to prepare it the night before so it can soak and then bake it the next morning. So this is the night prep... it took me forever! (mostly b/c i didnt know what I was doing and had to reference the recipe constantly).
 And we finally used our santa plate! (i forgot last year!!). We ran out of time to make cookies so we just put out some sugar cookies. Rhyan didnt seem to care and Santa obviously didnt mind!
 CHRISTMAS MORNING!!!!

The kids, at their current ages, are GREAT about waiting until we let them go see what "Santa" brought.

All Rhyan kept asking for this year was a "Talking Tangled" (Rapunzel). Well, they dont make such! So we kept talking up a singing rapunzel in hopes that she'd start liking that idea. Eventually it caught on and she was on board! She was SO excited to see that she got that doll Christmas Morning!!!

 She had not asked for a bike, but we thought it would be a great gift seeing as how her knees were hitting the handle bars on her tricycle! She was SO surprised and immediately got up on it and started riding it around the house! We were concerned that a 16" was going to be too big for her but the 12" looked so SMALL! We were very glad that we went with the 16... great size for her now and still has room to grow!
 Mack got a Chuggington Choo-Choo (he's obsessed with trains) and he plays with it daily! Love it!
 Notice Rapunzel in her "basket"
 I didnt get many pics of Mack with his toys because he was just kind of everywhere and looking all around but not really "playing" with anything... I think he was trying to figure things out :-) That little people ramp toy you see in the pic below is by far the BEST thing he got this year... he and Rhyan play with it DAILY!
 Gran and Grandad came by later in the morning to see everything the kids had gotten! 
And Mack, with ALL of his new toys, decided that the most exciting thing to do is to climb through our end tables in the living room. REALLY?!!??!
 That evening, we went to Gran and Grandad's for dinner (yum). And Aunt GAYE came!!! She lives in S.C. but has joined us this last couple of years for Christmas, which we've all really enjoyed! Its so nice of her to come so far and we all love getting to catch up and spend time with her! And she, of course, enjoyed getting to spend time with the kiddos, especially little Avery, who she hasnt seen much of! (our kids are "old news" haha... kidding)

Look at that sweet grin!!!


 Rhyan loves her little "baby Avery" (who isnt such a little baby anymore!!!) and wanted to hold her!


 AND... help feed her! How cute is that?! Liz is so good and sweet about letting the kids "help" with her and hold her... especially considering that Avery is their first baby! Cool Mom/Aunt points for sure :-)
 Mack, however, wanted to make sure that she had her paci in her mouth... whether she wanted it or not!
 Time to hand out presents!!!
 Notice that this big red gift has hands and feet but no head?! ;-) hehe

 Little Avery had a LONG day... a trip to SC to visit Liz's family in the morning and to visit with us in the evening... poor baby was in the car most of the day and didnt sleep very much. Holidays can be HARD with family who doesnt live close, I know. I'm SO grateful that ours are both local! So Liz was helping get her to sleep :-) Precious times....






 Aunt Gaye gave Rhyan and Mack some SUPER cute outfits! And a few toys! she spoiled them!!! Jason and Liz gave them each a couple of toys (disney characters! and for Rhyan a movie and Mack some "tools") and then an extra, surprise gift for Rhyan... a sweet gold cross necklace! She felt so grown up and loves it!
Gran and Grandad gave some SUPER cute outfits, too! And a couple of toys, too. They racked up!
 LOL!!!!!!!!

We are so grateful for all of the time we get to spend with our family at Christmas. It truly is the most wonderful time of the year!!!

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