Our Christmas was fantastic! We got home from Ft. Worth on Christmas Eve afternoon, with just enough
time to make our Santa cookies, decorate them, and have a quick dinner. As usual, the girls decorated their Santa cookies with some serious "over sprinkling"!!! We left some plain iced ones for him, just in case he wasn't in the mood for sprinkles. Adilyn wrote a letter to Santa, and Kacy wrote a letter to Elfina. Adilyn's said something like this, "Santa, Happe Holiday's. (sticker of an ornament, sticker of a present) on the tree. Ho, ho, ho. Happe Crismis. Love, Adilyn" Kacy wanted hers to say, "I love you, Elfina. Goodbye to you, Elfina. Happy Birthday!" I guess she thought that Elfina and Jesus share a birthday :)
They went to sleep relatively well, considering that it was Christmas Eve. Everyone went to bed at a decent hour, of course, Brooke woke up at her normal times and ended up in our bed.
Adilyn woke up around 7:15, and we told her to wait in our room until Kacy woke up. She was getting antsy, so I let her play games on my phone. Thank goodness for technology to entertain an anxious kid! Kacy finally got up around 8, and we went out to see what Santa had left. They were so excited to see real princess dress-up dresses, bean bag chairs for the playroom, and their full stockings! Brooke was still sleeping, but seeing as how she wasn't really into opening presents at any of our other celebrations, we went ahead without her. It was hilarious to see the differences in the girl's attitudes with presents. Adilyn would have busted into every single one of hers in ten minutes if I would have let her! Kacy took her time, opened a present and examined it, tried on clothes when she got something new, and really didn't care about how many presents she had left. We took a break to eat our breakfast feast - yummy french toast bake, hashbrown casserole, and eggs. At this point, Adilyn had opened all her presents, and Kacy still had 3 to open. Brooke had woken up to Christmas chaos, and most of her presents were still unopened. Although she didn't do much opening, she was very happy crawling around and exploring all of the new toys laying around. It was killing Adilyn to have wrapped presents still in the house, so after we ate, we opened the rest :)
The rest of the afternoon, we just relaxed, played with new toys, and enjoyed being together. That evening we went to Grandma Henderson's house to celebrate with her and Amy. We had a great dinner over there!
I love celebrating Christmas with our little family. It's such a nice, relaxing day!
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