The girls and I spent an afternoon making Christmas rice crispy treats...believe it or not, I have never made these before in my life. Christmas sugar cookies and icing are still my favorite, but the girls really liked making a mess with the rice crispies.
The girls are still fascinated by the lights and ornaments. Everyday I had to remind them to not unplug the lights, take the ornaments off the tree, etc. I finally gave in and let them play with these bells. In fact, I still think one or two of them are under Mylie's bed.
We started our Christmas celebrations at our house Christmas Eve Eve. We got the girls in their jammies, made and put out food for the reindeers, put cookies and milk out for Santa, wrote Santa a little note and hit the sack!
We woke up the morning of Christmas Eve and Santa fulfilled our request and visited our house early! Mylie was surprised to see that he had snacked on his cookies and did drink all his milk! The girls got new Christmas jammies, a bowling set, a new guitar and other little fun things. They also got 2 little fish, Nemo and Dorrie, however, after a few days in their fish tank, we lost Nemo and Dorrie followed shortly. Funny story...David took Dorrie to "flush" her, only he forgot to actually flush the toilet. A little while later, Mylie went to go use the potty and found her beloved friend. The expression on her face...oh my goodness. I told her we were going to have to get new fish at Walmart and that eased her concerns.
Here is David's beloved gift. He designed these shoes on Nike.com. He patiently checked the Nike website almost daily to see when the shoes would be finished, shipped and then arriving at our house. I tried to hide them from him and just let him open them on Christmas, but since he was checking the tracking info, he knew that they had been delivered. So he got to see them early. I did, however, still wrap them and stick them under the tree.
The Christmas festivities with the families begin...
We went to Christmas Eve Communion with the Hicks's...
Then off to my mom's house...
This is the look right here, ladies...the look from David that won me over. Especially with the cigar in his mouth. Could you resist either???
Many, many, many thanks, Uncle Ryan for the enormous, enormous tent that takes 2 people to put together, is bigger than any room in our house and that the girls incessantly ask to be put up. I just love crawling around the floor, in nylon, 7 months pregnant to put it together. I'll call you next time they ask to play in Dora's castle. Ha!
The girls got "The Night Before Christmas" in their stockings this year, so we started a new tradition of reading this book before bed as well as reading a book about the Birth of Christ. They loved reading both! And actually sat still through the entire books! (And no comments on Mylie's paci either...we have tried to trash it, but hearing her go into hysterics is not so fun. One day...ahhh...one day.)
We usually spend Christmas morning with my dad and Cindy at Dad's house. We spent Christmas morning at Cindy's this year because a few weeks before Christmas my dad fell 6 feet off his ladder while hanging Christmas lights. He broke both wrists and had surgery on both to put in pins and plates. He is doing well, but it did slow him down some...not much, for all that know my dad...but some. We are just happy he didn't hurt himself worse!
We spent the afternoon and evening with the Hicks' opening presents and having a yummy lunch. We took the girls home for quick naps (for me and David too!) and then went back for posole. We had lots of desserts and spent the evening catching up with the Schafer family.
We had such a wonderful holiday season and we hope yours was too!
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Looks like you guys are having lots of fun! You look so cute pregnant. You are about to be busy!!:)
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