Christmas 2012

We had a great Christmas this year.  Funny, I just realized I didn't really take that many pictures.  The girls got 2 Christmas dresses this year. One that I bought them and one that their Aunt Margene bought them.  Both are so cute and they've been wearing them each Sunday all month.

The Sunday before Christmas we all went to my sister Jennifer's house for cinnamon rolls and hot chocolate.  We exchanged our cousin books and acted out the nativity.  My girls didn't participate but had fun watching and playing with all their cousins.

Christmas Eve we hung out at home and then went over to my parents that night for a yummy ham dinner.  It was just Jennifer, Jeff, Whitney, Max, my parents and us.  It was kind of nice with a smaller group (no offense to the rest of my family) and not so crazy.

We were lucky because the girls went to bed late on Christmas Eve so they didn't wake up until 8am.  Very much sleeping in for us these days.  We got up and had waffles for breakfast and then showed the girls what Santa had brought them.  The girls loved their play house but were a little unsure about their rocking horse.  When we pushed the ear so it starts making galloping and naying sounds Siena totally walked backwards away from it.  Since then they'll go up and pet it and I'm pretty sure they think it's a real horse but they do not want to sit on it and are still a little unsure when it starts making noise.  We had a few presents for them to open and Siena didn't touch one of them.  Luckily Aria was at least a little interested in tearing the paper off.

Shane gave me a bunch of things, a new purse and new blowdryer were my favorite.  I needed both of them desperately.  I gave Shane a few things but his main present was a snowboard helmet...which might have been selfish on my part to keep him safe when he snowboards.  I think he liked it though.

I also got a new iPhone case since I had recently dropped mine and broke the case.  Well is came with a foam cutout of an iPhone and a picture of it.  So I put my old broken case on it and gave it to Siena and she is in love.  She walked around all morning with it thinking she had her own iPhone.  The best present she got which we never even planned for.

That afternoon we went back over to my parents house for our annual turkey dinner.  We ate so much food.  My parents gave the girls little doll strollers and a doll and they love them.  They've been pushing them around all day today.  Aria pushes hers normally and Siena pushes hers to the side and sometimes half carries it but they both love it.  My mom gave me the nicest gift as well but I'll save that for another post.

After dinner we headed over to Shane's brother's house for dessert and were exhausted and very full by the time we got home.

I always feel so blessed and happy at Christmas with everything I'm blessed with.  I have wonderful family, Shane's family and I love that we are all so close and get along so well.  It makes holidays and life so much more fun.