Monday, January 21, 2013

Christmas Eve

We celebrated our Colorado Christmas Eve on December 16th. We went over to DeeDee's for brunch and presents with Great Grandma Nicoll, Dylan, Britney, Callie, and Annalea. It was so fun to watch all the girls opening and playing with their new toys.

Addie and Emily got to wear some very cute Christmas dresses, which they posed in for me before leaving for DeeDee's.

My sweet little elves
When you ask Emily to smile for the camera these days, lots of times she'll do this dramatic head tilt
Holding hands and looking sweet
Addie says "I'm ready to go!"

 Stockings at DeeDee's

 
 
 
Pistachios are a common treat in our stockings from DeeDee, and the girls discovered that Great Grandma was really good at opening the shells

 Presents!

Callie has recently begun wearing princess dresses, and had this beautiful Cinderella dress on for Christmas
Emily and Addie got new dolls with hair to brush and closing eyes to go with their new doll cradle and high chair
Callie got an amazing dress up box
The girls ask Uncle Dylan to get their doll out of her box
Ta Da!
Playing with Great Grandma
New tub toys!
Cal checks out Annalea's new puzzle
 We had a great morning with the family! After a nice long nap back home, we spent the evening playing with new toys. 

Before bed, the girls hung their stockings and ate Santa's cookies.



After a Christmas Eve bedtime story, it was off to bed.

3 comments:

  1. What a great shot of the girls in their pretty dresses by the tree BOTH looking at you! And the three jammies shots. Awww, how fabulous. Christmas traditions are the best. Now be honest, the girls got up and ran away as soon as you started reading that book.

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    1. We made it through page one...hoping for more next year! Our favorite Christmas story this year was a picture book of Silent Night. About three words per page, and lots of pictures of Baby Jesus.

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  2. HAHA! I just realized it said that the girls ate Santa's cookies.

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