Friday, January 4, 2008

It's Christmas!

What a wonderful day Christmas is! We are so grateful to have the most incredible reason to celebrate and to spoil our children and spend quality time with our family!




When the girls woke up Christmas morning they couldn't wait to see if Santa stopped at our house! Indeed Santa did stop and he left some pretty great toys! We started out by exploring all these wonderful gifts, then moved on to the gifts from each other. Here's Addison's experience in pictures:







Santa gave Addison a Tickle Me Elmo TMX (this is something the entire family has really enjoyed playing with!) a LeapFrog table, Princess blocks, Little People, Jack-in-the-box and quite a few other things too! She was a bit overwhelmed with the entire morning and all of the new stuff around her, so she didn't really get into opening gifts, but here are a few of the gifts she did open:

A baby from Trinity

(she has really enjoyed loving on this little thing, her face lights up when she sees it!)





A placemat play place



She also got a couple of outfits, books and toys.



Next is Emory! Here's her loot from the big man in red:





Santa knew just what Emory wanted! He brought her a baby that poops and pees in the potty (we're having about as much luck getting her to go in the potty as I am having with Emory), dress up clothes, Princess oven, purse, arts and crafts, and a lot more! The whole time Emory was opening gifts she was so grateful! She kept saying, "Thank you so much, this is just what I wanted!", "Oh, I love this! Thank you so much!", "Santa, you are wonderful!" and a number of other very sweet things! Here are some of the gifts she got from the family:

My Little Pony


Angelina Ballerina costume and video

Pink sparkly shoes


Her very own James Avery butterfly and cross necklace from Trinity



Last, but not least is Trinity. Here's her goodies from Santa:

She got a Grows and Knows Your Name Puppy, which she named Chloe after her Chapel Buddie at school, she got TONS of beading stuff, arts and crafts and several other things too. The trampoline is for all three girls to share. Trinity really got into the spirit of Christmas this year and for her it was mostly about giving and enjoying the delight of other people when they received something new. She was really excited about passing out all the gifts to everyone, then each of us taking turns opening one gift at a time so we could all see what it was and how special it was to the recipient. She was a big help with everyone's package opening! She didn't really want me to take any pictures of her, so I only got a couple:

American Girl Doll clothes from Emory.

She was so excited about it, Emory ran up and gave her a hug!

A crystal "PRINCESS" wall hanging

We are so blessed to be able to provide such wonderful gifts for our girls!

Speaking of blessed...I am blessed with the MOST AMAZING husband in the entire world! He was supposed to give me a new cell phone for Christmas (since my Razor spent the night in a puddle in the bath tub) and that was it, but he so didn't listen! He went shopping all by himself and check out what he got me:

Yep, you see right, that's a Diamond Necklace AND a Dooney and Burke purse!!!!!! Hello, is he good or what?!?!?! I was totally surprised by each of these, together they nearly knocked me out! I LOVE MY HUBBY! Oh, and yes, I did still get my new cell phone that I love!









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