Christmas this year was really relaxing and enjoyable! Grace and Jane woke up at about the same time, which worked out well, and we had our little family Christmas morning to ourselves. Grace was finally able to get excited about "presents!!!" and Janie was a rockstar wrapping ripper! (Gracie was never into unwrapping until this year, but Janie loved it!) On Christmas Eve we set out some reindeer food (oats and glitter) and Gracie loved to see that it was all eaten in the morning...though the bowl was FULL of snow. Grace decided to eat all the snow that was in the bowl :)
Christmas afternoon, Joe's parents came over and we had lunch and played some games, I think. Then, in the evening, the Jolleys came for a ham dinner, which was really yummy!
We didn't have to travel at all, which was SO nice. The roads were TERRIBLE because of a huge snowstorm Christmas Eve, so we were content to spend the day as a family in our own home. Ahhhhhh. That's the good stuff.
Each year, Joe buys the girls ornaments. This year Gracie got a silver train that says "Santa Express."
Janie got a beautiful silver star. It was really intricate and delicate, which maybe wasn't the best idea for Jane, but she loved it :)
Here's Gracie sitting in her blue Bilibo. The kiddos love these things! They play with them everyday!
Janie got a cabbage patch kid and when she unwrapped it she kept saying, "Shoes! Shoes!" because the doll has shoes on. She was all stoked that she got some "shoes" :) (BTW- if the shoes are off of the doll, she won't touch it with a ten foot pole. LOL)Quote of the Day:
"A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man's heart through half the year."
~Walter Scott
2 comments:
All of these pictures are great! What a fun Christmas!
Christmas was a lot of fun! Grace is finally old enough to really get into it and she's still asking me to sing Christmas songs, just like she was asking me to sing Halloween songs up until about Thanksgiving :)
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