Christmas, Christmas & more Christmas!

We must have been very good this year because Santa & our families were very good to us! Emme's first Christmas was a great one! Christmas Eve night we spent with Aaron's family. Gabby & PaPa were very generous and we all made out like bandits! The kids also opened their gifts from J & Jennifer and Bryan & Candace. They loved it all and got so many cute clothes & toys. Thanks guys! Gabby & PaPa stuck around very late helping Santa. Aaron was enlisted by Santa this year to make a dollhouse bookshelf for Emerson and he was working late into the night/early into the morning on that, so PaPa helped Santa put Jackson's train table together. Santa would not have been able to make it to all the other boys & girls if it weren't for PaPa, so thank you, PaPa! Both kids slept late on Christmas morning, in fact we had to wake Jackson up at 9:30am so that he could see what Santa brought him. We had set up a video camera to catch his reaction, but he walked straight in and started playing with his train table like it had always been there. Too funny! Santa brought Emme her dollhouse, pink duck tub, a stacker, a baby doll, some little toys & PJs. Jackson got the train table, a construction set, a musical Thomas toothbrush, coloring books and some PJs. We then opened gifts from out of town family & friends and then got ready and went to Yaya & Pops' for my side's Christmas. We opened gifts there and ate and ate and ate. I'm still stuffed, but ate some more today because it was all so good! We had more Christmas today once Nana got back from Lamesa. Now, where to put all of this new stuff? I'm formulating a plan before I tackle the actual putting away, at least that's how I rationalize my lack of motivation! I hope everyone had a blessed Christmas - we sure did!

Emme's first Barbie

Sit-n-spin!
He got the hang of it very quickly.

Emerson in her reindeer PJs

Jackson in his Christmas PJs.

Santa Came to see Emerson!

and Jackson!

It was a hit!

Santa came to Yaya's too! More trains for Jackson.

A doll, tea set & blocks for Emme.

Sunglasses from Santa

Yaya & her babes

Yaya & Pops with the kids

Jackson's new fire boots.

We found out today when we visited a fire station (more on that later) that the 343 on his boots stands for the number of firefighters that were killed on September 11th. I guess Nordstroms knew that, but we didn't. Pretty cool!

How Emme spent gift opening time.

Jackson & Brennan in his waders for duck hunting

After Emme woke up, we opened her gifts.