Christmas Day

Perfect day.

Santa had sent Audrey and Joshua a message and Santa had mentioned he knew how much Audrey loved pickles. She loved that he brought her a jar of pickles.
I need to explain our tree situation. We bought a real tree and put about 50% of our decorations on it. We also have a fake tree to put all our sentimental and memory ornaments on.  We were going to move the fake tree into the kids play room, but it never quite happened.  Pregnancy.  I blame everything on it.

That Santa.  He is super awesome.  He delivered on Joshua's hope for a big Buzz.

He was so excited he couldn't stand it. Audrey helped him open the rest of the present. My favorite moment of the day was after Joshua had opened his Buzz, and Audrey hadn't opened any gifts yet, Audrey said to Joshua, "I'm really happy for you Joshua!"

The only time Joshua stopped playing with Buzz was to come take a bite of my cereal. I have to eat first thing or I feel sick, and Joshua loves cereal as much as I do. He came and plopped himself in my lap and took over the cereal. I didn't mind one bit.

Santa brought Audrey her video girl Barbie she wanted.

Audrey introducing new video girl Barbie to her American Girl Doll, Norie. "Now they are sisters!"

After we opened our Santa gifts we made a big yummy breakfast...eggs, sausage, cinnamon rolls, pancakes with buttermilk syrup and fruit.  Then we opened gifts.
Audrey had made lots of pictures and put them under the tree for us to open on Christmas. One of her masterpieces.

Joshua thought our Christmas stockings were for his feet.

I loved the labeling of gifts this year. Audrey was my little helper and she didn't ask how to spell anything.
"To Dad, love Audrey and Joshua and Michelle.  Love you. Merry Christmas"

"To Michelle. Love Audrey and Joshua and Dad. We love you so much. Merry Christmas!"

Joshua got a pair of kid scissors that he was obsessed with. He used them to help open every gift, which is probably why it took us so long to open all our gifts! He cried at nap time because he wanted to sleep with his scissors. Nope.

Audrey wanted all of her new Barbies to watch a movie with her while the rest of us took naps.

Saturday night, around 7:00, Audrey decided she wanted to open her big present. It was a Barbie house from her Memor and Fafa. She was so excited!

"Dad will you put it together...PLEASE?"

Dave got some sweet interruptions while trying to put the house together.

The kids loved it.

Christmas was a really fun day.  We stayed in our pajamas all day long.  We were supposed to go to some friends for dinner, but one of their little girls got sick. Instead we took a drive to the church to return the tables and chairs we borrowed for our Christmas Eve dinner (and let the kids play with their new toys in the gym), and tried to find an open place for dinner... no luck. So we came home and watched Beauty and the Beast and had tuna sandwiches, with lots and lots of Audrey's special Santa pickles.  The kids got to sleep in our room again that night (Christmas Eve they fall asleep in their own beds and then we carry them into our room after all the wrapping is done).  It was a fabulous Christmas.


Sunday, Dec 26th. Christmas take two. We are really slow present openers, so we still had presents on the day after Christmas. The last gift was opened around 6:00 pm Sunday night.

Opening a bounce house from my parents. I don't know what I am doing here, but I love Audrey's face. PS. I am wearing an apron. One time I had someone over for dinner and I was wearing my apron and when I took it off she said, "Oh I thought that was part of your outfit!" Ever since then I feel the need to let people know my apron isn't part of my outfit.

Merry Christmas!