Merry Christmas 2009!

We had a wonderful Christmas this year! It was so fun to see how excited Kaylee was about Christmas, Santa, and all that goes along with the Christmas season. We counted down the days with watching some Christmas movie classics, a couple of hot chocolate parties. present shopping for family, reading some favorite Christmas books, some hunting for Christmas lights drives, and of course decorating the trees. Kaylee thought this was all so exciting this year and it made Christmas come alive once again for us adults to see the twinkle in her little eyes!

Kaylee and Makenna were both too excited to sleep the night of Christmas eve, so we put on some Elmo Counts Down to Christmas and they cuddled up in their new Christmas blankie and jammies and ate some yummy snacks until they tired out!



Both girls got some cuddly new PJ's for Christmas eve. This is a family tradition that I always loved and so we have extended it into our own little family. I tried to get Makenna to pose for a quick pic, but she was very uninterested!

Our girls love to sleep in! No matter how excited Kaylee was the night before, we actually had to wake her up to come open presents! Here she is patiently waiting to head downstairs to see if Santa made it to her house this year!

Kaylee was so excited with all of her presents this year! She had a very specific list for Santa this year and through letters and a trip to see Santa at the mall she was SURE she was going to get everything she had asked for! However, there was one present that was at the top of her list- An American Girl Doll! She was so worried that Santa was going to forget and as she waited to come downstairs on Christmas morning- this was definitely at the front of her mind. We have the tradition of opening one present at a time and taking turns back and forth. We let Kaylee go first so that she could show her little sister how it was done. Santa had very meticulously placed the American Girl box at the back of the presents- this however did NOT fool our little Kaylee! She scanned the presents very carefully and after a few moments of contemplation pushed the presents in the front to the side and grabbed the box in the very back. I don't know how she knew this was the one but Dan and I had to laugh as she so surely grabbed this one first. She tore it open and her face lit up as she saw her American Girl doll that looked just like her peeking at her from the box. She was so excited! She named her Virginia and they are now best friends!

Makenna was most concerned with talking on her new cell phone! She got some elmo stuff that Santa thought she would love- however, she was completely terrified by the laughing, shaking, Tickle Me Elmo!!!


Both girls got a new purse filled with girlie purse stuff for Christmas. Here they are all set to go to Nana's- purses in tow. Oh how they take after their mother! To daddy's dismay he now has three purse obsessed girls to take care of:-)
Merry Christmas!