Sunday, January 09, 2011

Christmas 2010

Rob joined us in time for Christmas Eve festivities. We started the night with a cheese fondue, played some games, had a main course, played some games and went down to the O'Conner's house down the street for more games, came back and had a chocolate fondue. Yum! We finished the night by reading the Birth of Christ in the Bible and tried to get the kids to sleep (after leaving out milk and cookies for Santa and carrots for the Reindeer).

And Santa did in fact come! Ellie was very excited on Christmas morning. She even slept in until 8:30 and then we dragged all the boys and Grandma and Grandpa out of bed so they could see her face when she saw what Santa had brought.





Eliza had a few requests from Santa - princess roller skates and a tambourine (not sure where that came from!). She must have been good since Santa brought her both! She was thrilled and wanted to try on the roller skates right away. Santa also brought her the Tinkerbell movie (although she has since told me that the second Tinkerbell movie is her favorite and not the one Santa brought her). Grandma and Grandpa gave her the Unicorn Pillow Pet that she has been begging me for and mom and dad gave her some new dress up clothes.





Chloe received some new baby dolls (her favorite) and a baby doll set from Santa. She was pretty happy and immediately started carrying around her new baby. She also got a new play drum that she was pretty excited about. For the most part Ellie helped her open her presents and was probably more excited about them than she was! Chloe just enjoyed all the excitement going on. And all the fruit and candy around...







We enjoyed watching everyone else open their presents and catching their funny expressions on camera. Rob's been enjoying his new night vision binoculars and I've become quite addicted to my Kindle (I never thought I would like it and I was really wrong!).














We followed up the morning events with a delicious breakfast with my dad's homemade quiche, bacon, and yummy cinnamon rolls. And then enjoyed playing with our new toys the rest of the day!

1 comment:

Laney said...

Ellie is so big! I love her little personality. The tamborine is awesome. I'm jealous of such a great trip up to the PNW. I'm glad you all had such a great time.