Our Christmas started on the 23rd when we took all 3 kids to the mall for Christmas pictures. We love those professional pictures--so much so that this was Katie's second time in her whole life. I was smart enough to bring two outfits...don't try that when everyone involved is under 2yrs old. After that event we went to visit Santa. Last year Katie would not go anywhere near him, this year she waited over an hour in line to see him. We even tried to bribe her to get her to leave but she was having none of that. When we finally had our turn, Katie ran up to him and gave him a big hug (sorry we opted out of paying $14.99 to document it), and talked to him about what she wanted for Christmas--toys and candy--easy enough, right Santa? I was so proud of her, anyone who knows Katie knows that she doesn't go anywhere near strangers, I guess there is just something about Santa.
Christmas EveChristmas Eve was pretty uneventful, we read "The Night Before Christmas" (this is a tradition of Mark's family that we decided to carry on) and 3 Nephi 1:12-14, and then set out milk and some of the cookies Katie and I had made. Then Mark and I stayed up all night and "helped Santa out."
The next morning I actually woke up before Katie, but when she did wake up she was in heaven. She spent the morning unwrapping gifts; her's and everyone else's.
The first thing Katie did after she unwrapped her kitchen was run to her toy basket and started grabbing things. We asked her what she was doing and she said she was getting stuff to put in the kitchen. We had to convince her to unwrap her gifts with promises of things to put on all the shelves. If you look closely you can see her car in the oven window.
Then we made a yummy breakfast, and hung out for the day. We read the Bible Christmas story before we ate dinner and sang Happy Birthday to Jesus before desert.
After dinner we went to see 3.2 miles of Christmas lights. You turn off your car lights and drive slowly through a park full of different Christmas lights set to music--it took us almost an hour but it was pretty cool.
MERRY CHRISTMAS !
4 comments:
The twins are looking so adorable! Glad you all had a fun Christmas.
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Katie's stove looks awesome, i want one.
Merry Christmas to you also!
Hi Erin,
I'm Plinio, Mark's friend from Brazil. What s his email??? Please, tell him to contact me. My email address is pliniomsan@gmail.com.
Thanks a lot.
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