Rockin' Christmas

So, where have all my we and all of our wonderful Christmas posts been?

On vacation back in AZ, that's where.

It. Was. Wonderful.

But we are home now (we all brought back colds), and I am ready to share our fun with you.

First up, Christmas. On Christmas Eve, the girls arranged a plate of goodies for Santa:



The carrots were for the reindeer. I'm pretty sure that even Santa couldn't eat all of those treats. Notice the "thanks you" note from Piper and the wrapped gift from Adi. Those two are so sweet!

Christmas Morning.

Porter was a bit on the overwhelmed side. He first only wanted to eat the candy trail that Santa had sprinkled outside his room, leading to the family room. Then when he saw his tools, all he wanted to do was play with them. He wouldn't even attempt to open his pile of gifts. So I did have to put down the camera and coax him to do so.



Little Miss Adi got her Addison doll. Which she has played with all of twice since here.

Pip finally got her Teenage Dora Doll. It is pretty cool, I must say. Even I have enjoyed playing with her!

Santa also brought the girls an Easy Bake Oven, and I made the girls these aprons and chef hats (you might remember them from an earlier post). I also had some fun with the Cricut and some vinyl and decorated some plastic mixing bowls...



Unfortunately, Santa forgot to read the Oven box, and didn't see that you had to get your own 100 watt bulb. So the girls got all dressed up, had their mixes picked out, and then- disappointment.

And here is photo proof that the pickiest eater alive LOVES fried mush.



That will mostly only mean something to the Buckways who are reading this.

I didn't take my usual enormous amount of photos this year, mostly because I am trying to get my face out from behind the camera and actually enjoy what the family is doing! We'll see how long that lasts.

We left on the 12 hour drive Christmas night, so that day was spent with the kiddos playing with their new toys and watching their new movies, me packing and cleaning, and OP sleeping.

We rock, don't we?