now that addison is 4, she is more aware of christmas as a holiday and the traditions that come along with it.... the most important, of course, is Jesus being born on that day, then there's celebrating family and friends, the gift of giving to others, being thankful for all the blessings in our lives, and probably the most exciting in her little eyes was that santa comes and drops off presents! it was fun to experience christmas through a child's eyes again. the night before, we watched rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, we made cookies for santa, she wrote him a note, and she went to bed with so much anticipation for the next morning. when she woke up the next morning, while still upstairs in her pajamas, she looked down below from our second floor balcony to see that santa had indeed eaten the cookies we left out for him. she immediately exclaimed and jumped up and down and did this sort of strange "happy" dance,
"he came! he came! santa didn't pass over our house!!" haha.. recently, she had been acting bad and greedy and we told her that santa won't come if she's naughty. so i think she was a bit worried. anyway, we went down opened what we got from santa and saved the rest of the gifts to open for when our guests arrived later.
a cold, rainy, yet peaceful christmas morning...
it's a present-opening frenzy
the red ball... the one thing she asked for from santa this year
one very happy girl...
and one crazy bedhead!
"thank you, santa!!"
daddy videotaping ellie
henry and his gifts from santa... favorite petsmart toy and a Ho Ho Ho t-shirt. he must have been good this year too! 
the ornament that addison made at church with her goofy-looking smile! what kind of smile is that???! ;P
my familythen later that day, jimmy's side of the family came over...
addison's gift to her halmuni... rooster to rooster
jimmy's cousins wife and his stepbro's fiance getting their uggs 
me and my mom-in-law
father-in-law
her first pair of skiis!
and finally the food!!
happy holidays, everyone!!!
6 comments:
DAMN WOMAN!!! That's some crazy presents and food! Can I come and live at your house! I can't believe Addison got skis!! She must have been a really good girl!
OMG!!! I am in LOVE with Henry! I want to hug him and squeeze him and rock him. Hahaha! As always, beau-ti-ful pics! And I too fell in love with those Christmas stockings. They hang from our fire place also. I actually started to perspire a little bit this year when I thought that I'd miss placed them, and couldn't remember where I'd packed them away..., but then Roe found them. :)
lucy, c'mon over! if you're ever in michigan, which will probably be never... we'd love to have you! i want to get josie and addie together someday now that they are older. it would be good times!
and hope, henry is a pretty good dog.. if you like hyper dogs that bark at any and all moving things outside... and hump your leg when you are about to leave the home... and that poop in the car because they are too excited to go to the groomers.... ;)
Hahaa, Christine, do we have the same dog? Wicket is super hyper too. The food, house and presents all look amazing! I wanna come over too!!
you really did great for christmas! from the ornaments to the food and festivities, it all looks great!!! Did you make those little table settings? so cute!
you mean the little birdhouses?? hellz no, i didn't make them! pier one, baby. pier one is great... but one little note to self... DON'T buy placemats with cute, little beads that are spot clean only. or don't buy any placemats that are spot clean only. because duh, they are placemats! now what am i gonna do with these things?
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