Christmas 2010

The last several years Santa has gone a little crazy at our house...but this year we did not let that happen. My goal was to have Santa give each kid 3 things and then 1 gift from us. They did end up with 5 gifts each from Santa but this was SO much better than I have done in the past. The last few years I realized that the kids really only played with 1 or 2 things that they got for Christmas. Even this year with only 5 gifts, there are still some things that they haven't really played with. So next year...I promise...only 3 gifts from Santa!!!

OK, on to the fun stuff. I had been anticipating Christmas morning for weeks! I could not wait to see the looks on their faces when they opened their gifts this year. Especially the gift from us!

All the presents waiting for them on Christmas morning. Cooper woke-up very early and went and told MawMaw that Santa had been there. He told her "there are millions of gifts! It's amazing!"


Best picture I could get of all 3 before they started opening presents.


Cooper and Emily each got a new bike and a new helmet. (they were super excited!) (Emily's bike came with training wheels, but they are off now and she is still doing great with no training wheels!)



Lucy had already forgotten from the night before about OPENING the presents. She really liked sitting on all the gifts.


then she walked around eating cookies for a while...


then she finally got into it, of course she had a couple of helpers


Emily got a new bag to take to slumber parties.


a new highchair for her babies

a cute new purse


Cooper loves his new Paper Jams guitar (it is pretty cool)


He also got several new Lego sets. He has put them all together and he did it all by himself. I was pretty impressed!


When I bought this gift for Lucy I had visions of her wearing it all day on Christmas. She was not a huge fan of the bunny costume like I was hoping for. She looked so cute in it!!


Lucy got several of her own toys, but she really liked climbing on Emily's new bike.


Another awesome toy that Emily got was a karaoke microphone. You plug your iphone/ipod into it and it plays all the songs from there. It has been a lot of fun watching the kids sing and dance.


Daddy and some neighborhood friends have been enjoying it too!



And last but not least....the big gift from mommy and daddy!!!




It was so fun to tell them that we are leaving in a few weeks to go to DISNEY WORLD!!! They were super excited (I may have done more jumping-up and down they did) but still they were thrilled. Lucy is going to stay with MawMaw while we go on a week long adventure to Disney World. I hope it is as fun as we are anticipating it to be! We are praying for good weather and a great time to make memories : )


Happy 2011!