Christmas Morning

Trying to get a picture of them on Christmas Eve. What a daunting task it is to get a decent picture of our girls.

fail...

fail.

All ready for bed.

Christmas morning, look at ALL of those presents!

Brooklynn had her priorities in check Christmas morning. At first she ran right past the tree and present and headed right over to the fireplace where she left the plate of cookies and carrots for Santa and his Reindeer, She was soo excited that he came to her house during the night and the food she left out had been eaten.  Isn't that the greatest idea to prove to children that Santa does indeed visit?  I love it :)

We were pretty rushed Christmas day.  It landed on a Sunday so we had to squeeze in family presents and Santa presents really early to make enough time to get out of the house and pick up Grandma Lee and then take her with us to Nana and Grandpa's house to do more presents, breakfast and head off to church together.  It was a little too rushed for me but hey, Christmas is just BUSY :D

Oh, and to explain the absence of Liv.... She is still sleeping.  She doesn't exactly handle late nights that well and we let her sleep while Brooklynn started some gift opening.

This is my HUGE gift from Jason.  It was a new camera :)

Here comes a cranky, sleep-deprived Alivia.

Jason eating some of his stocking goodies

The most decent of pictures I got with my girls that morning.  Yuck!

The girls were so spoiled by their many grandparents, aunties and of course mom, dad and Santa.  I don't think we will need to buy them any toys for a couple years and Liv will probably have to start having half birthdays.

On a side note, and without the focus on material gifts we tried very hard to focus and make a big deal that this is when we celebrate Jesus's birthday.  We talked a lot about the nativity and even went to see it as a family. Brooklynn is catching on that we want to be a family forever and make it back to heaven to be with Heavenly Father and Jesus again some day and the presents at Christmas are only because we celebrate at Christmas and give presents out of love and gratitude.  I love answering her questions about Heavenly Father and Jesus.  It strengthens our faith as she starts to grow her own.

We hope all of you had a very Merry Christmas.