Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Santa Claus is Coming To Town

Christmas Eve:
We split our time for Christmas Eve to see both sides of the family and it was my parents first.. I don't really take pictures with my camera over at my parents though. I tend to love playing with my mom's camera, so I take a TON with that. Someday maybe I'll get those pictures! :)


After my parents house, we headed to Christian's parents, who always have pasties for dinner. Before dinner the kids got to each open a little something.


Here is messy face Delaney after some MnM's.


Then we headed home to get ready for Santa. Earlier in the week we baked cookies and made a gingerbread house. We decided to take a picture of our group effort.
Then the house neeeded to be prepped for the big guy. We had to leave out milk and cookies (of course), reindeer food in the front yard which consisted of oats and glitter....all of which ended up in Delaney's hair (okay, we can do this) and cheese for the Santa Mouse (what?!?!) Makenna had it all planned out. The mouse did eat the cheese, in case you are wondering.

This is what Santa left them the next morning!

Delaney loved her new Rapunzel doll that has hair that glows when you brush it! She also got a ferris wheel for her ponies, a little doggie in a purse that she named "Paws" and much more.

Camden was super excited about his DSI!!!!! He LOVES playing Makenna's, so he was so stoked to get his own. He also got Mario Brothers for it (his favorite), a Lego set and a Voltron toy.

Look how excited he is about this!Makenna thought her pillow pet and doggie with a purse were perfect from Santa. She named her little chihuahau, "Chloe" after the dog in Beverly Hills Chihuahua. She also got a craft box where she can be as creative as she want. It is filled with all sorts of crafts.

It was pretty funny because it took the kids a while to realize something was behind all these toys...their own balance beam! The girls especially were interested in this new item. In no time, Makenna was doing cartwheels.Daddy liked it too! Delaney with Rapunzel, Makenna with her pillowpet, and Camden with the DSi. The kids loved everything that Santa brought and wondered how he knew them so well. ;)

After Santa gifts we opened our gifts to each other. My favorite part of the whole day was watching how excited Makenna was during this. She had a Santa store at her school and she brought money and picked out a gift for each of us. She put so much thought into each gift she chose and I loved how eager she was for us to open. So sweet.
For me, she picked out a magnet for the fridge that says, "World's Best Mom."
For Christian, it was a pen for this work that says, "World's Best Dad."

For Camden, it was a squishy little football, and for Delaney it was a little puppy. She was so proud of her gifts and I was so proud of her excitement to give! :)

After more playing, we got the kids ready to go.

Look at sweet little Delaney.

And beautiful Makenna.


And cool Camden.

Our sweet Christmas angels.

We went to my parents next and I still have to get all the pictures for mom, so hopefully I will be able to get more posted. What a great day it was!!!

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