Christmas Morning 2011

Christmas morning this year was on a Sunday – which added an interesting time element to the day.  We were excited that church was only going to be one hour…but it was still feeling like a challenge to enjoy our Christmas morning AND get to church by 10:00.  A challenge…and a blessing because we got an extra dose of the “real” meaning of Christmas with beautiful talks and music.

 

Our Christmas was a great mix of LOTS of blessings…but not overboard.  They seem to genuinely care about all of their things and have had fun playing with them. They also got a karaoke machine from Grandma, which has been a GREAT hit.  And I got a gift certificate for a facial from Lindy – which I can’t wait to use!

 

Anyway, the kids were all up around 7:30 and we headed out to the living room for our magical morning.

(the dresses all ready to go!)

 

 

Santa brought our family a desktop computer – which is great since we’ve been sharing mom and dad’s laptops!

Jordyn’s slip on Jazz shoes she’s been begging for!

 

 

Cute owl pillows from mom (I traded signs for these cute hand made pillows)

 

Peyton was confused when she opened an American Girl Doll outfit…until she opened the doll too!  This is her look-alike doll whom she named “Emmi”!  This is also a cheesy picture of me in the new hat Tucker got me.  It’s reversible!

Lexi got glasses for her AG doll!  And this is Jordyn opening the home-made annual gift of Jammies from Gam!!

Lexi is holding up the Pajama Pillow Gam made to hold those cute pajamas!   Tucker got me lots of Bath & Body Works!

Lately, my girls have had an interest in hot chocolte…and we’ve realized that we don’t have any mugs!  Strange!  So I got everyone their own.  And here is our Elfie on his last day with us.

Jordyn got me a candle from her “Santa’s Secret Shop” at school…and Lexi got me this diamond ring.  They know their mom!

 

Pey with “Emmi”. 

 

This year, our girls were very interesting in electronics and of course mentioned iPod touches on their list of wants.  So we made a compromise…we spiced up their current MP3 players with new songs/videos and then bought them these AWESOME speakers (the white thing below) and new headphones that actually stay on their head… and this gave them a re-newed interest in their old MP3 players!  Jordyn got Tucker’s old iPod Classic – which is 60G so it holds A TON of photos, songs and movies…and she seems quite happy with this recycled gift!  I just felt that this was a great compromise and reminded them that we have iPhones and an iPad they can borrow for games…and don’t “need” their own.  I just really don’t want a family who is 100% buried in electronics if I can help it!

 

And here the girls are in Gam’s Jammies – so cute!  It’s amazing to me that she does this every year for all the grandchildren!  So much sewing and love!

 

Peyton with her cousin gift from Emmi (her 15 year old cousin whom she is obsessed with).  She got a framed picture and a unicorn pillow pet!

 

Oh – and somehow we were only 15 minutes late for church ;-)