We had such a fun Christmas season this year. I think it's taken me awhile to blog about it because it was so much fun and now I have the post Christmas blues! From Disneyland, to riding on the Santa Train, to seeing Christmas lights, it was just a blast!
We started off the month with a visit to see Santa. A good friend of ours has "Santa Mike" to her house every year for a one on one visit with the kids. For the last 3 years now Savannah has wanted nothing to do with Santa....this year was no exception. So, there is no picture of Savannah with "Santa Mike" but at least we got one of Madeline!
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| Madeline meets Santa for the first time! |
I felt like I spent the whole month of December wrapping presents, thank goodness I had a little helper to lighten the lode :) Savannah LOVED wrapping presents. Her favorite part of course was sticking all the bows on.
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| Savannah wrapped a present for her Groppy! |
Later in the month we had a great time riding the Santa Train. We got to ride a real train to Santa's Village and meet Santa for a second time! This time I got what I had been hoping for, a picture of both girls willingly sitting with Santa! Don't the girls look excited?
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| I love how Savannah is protectively hanging onto her sister :) |
Christmas Eve was a very fun day. After eating a very delicious dinner we took a ride to look at some amazing Christmas lights. Then we came home and opened our stockings.
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| Madeline ready to go look at lights on Christmas Eve |
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| The girls ready to open their stockings! |
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| Me and my girls on Christmas Eve |
Christmas was a fun and interesting day. The morning started off great! Madeline decided to sleep in until almost 9am so Derek and I were able to spend some very special one on one time with Savannah opening some of her presents. For months prior to Christmas if you asked her what she wanted for Christmas her answer would be "a pink vacuum". Needless to say she was very excited when Santa came through on Christmas morning.
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| Trying out her new Dyson! |
Soon after Madeline woke up to join in on the fun! I am pretty sure she enjoyed eating the wrapping paper and ribbon more than the actual presents!
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| Excited to open a present! |
The big present for the girls was a brand new play kitchen! We are still working on the sharing aspect but they both love playing in their new kitchen!
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| My little chef ready to cook! |
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| My mini chef :) |
Our Christmas got interesting around 11am. Our electricity went off!! I was sure it would come back on within a couple of minutes but boy was I wrong, it didn't come back on until 11 that night! Derek cooked our lunch on the BBQ which was kind of fun. We were planning on having a dinner at our house but thankfully my step sister got the day off work at the last minute and offered to host at her house. So, we packed up the ham and headed there for a great dinner!
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| The girls listening to the emergency radio with Daddy trying to find out when the power will come back on |
Groppy and Poppy spent the night with us by candlelight and we enjoyed opening presents with them the next morning. Our girls love their grandparents and are alway so excited when they come to see us.
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| Madeline snuggling with Grandma |
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| Savannah reading the newspaper with Poppy |
We hope everyone had a great Christmas. Happy New Year!
