Christmas

So we have made it through Christmas.  On Christmas Eve, we got a big snow storm lasting most of the day.  I will not lie, I was so excited to see the snow when I woke up!  The fun was that I started me having harder contractions throughout the day, that made me a little excited and scared at the same time.  We got up at a descent hour and ran down to Carl's Jr for breakfast.  We planned on going to a movie a little later in the day so we ran over and got tickets for that just to make sure they didn't sell out.  We then had 2 hrs to kill, so we went to go find dresses for Avi since she is in need of them right now, why can't kids stop growing?  We lucked out in Kid to Kid and found a great one for a great price.  The girls wanted to go see the mall and Santa Clause, so we went there.  The line to see Santa was much longer than we had time or energy to wait for, so we went to the play land instead.  I was so glad that I had absolutely no reason to step foot in any of the stores there, it was a mad house!  The girls literally ran around the play area for 20 min straight!  We then headed to our movie Arther Christmas.  By the time the movie started the place was packed, and I was glad I got our tickets early when only 10 had been sold before us.  After the movie we went home, had dinner, cleaned up a little, and generally got ready for Santa the next day.  We let the girls open 1 present which were the PJs they were going to wear that night.  

 On Christmas morning, Avi woke up at 6:20 ready to go, Dailynn was excited when we woke her up, but JJ didn't want to have anything to do with it, and wanted to go back to sleep.  The problem is we were too excited to wait for her to wake up causing a little distress for the first few min.

 The girls checking out what Santa didn't wrap for them.  Jeslyn needed a little help figuring out what was going on.

 As soon as she found her leap pad, there was no going back.  She loves that thing!

 When we open presents, each girl gets a turn.  Sometimes if they are the same thing, we will had it to multiple girls at once.  With Jeslyn, she spent the first half of Christmas playing her leap pad and only opening presents if they got between her eyes and the pad.  She would open it, look at it for a sec, then throw it to the side and get back to her game.  Eventually she realized she was getting some cool stuff and put the pad down and got excited about the presents.  Avi got a new camera, an mp3 player, a bunch of drawing stuff and books.  Dailynn got a DSI with games and  a case, books, drawing stuff, and a watch (she has been stealing mine like crazy lately, I wanted to keep it for myself).  Jeslyn got about everything under the sun, and she loves ALL of it so much!  They girls said they had an AWESOME Christmas!

2 days later we had Grandma and Grandpa come share a little Christmas with us.  They brought some puzzles, block, movies, and a great picture.  We gave Mom her gift of the flatware from us siblings.  They loved it!  We had a great time with them and the bobcat.  He liked climbing out Christmas trees, so Mom helped me put one of them away.  That was helpful, now I just have to finish putting the other one away and Christmas will be over and we can work on baby.