Christmas Day!

Santa surely made his presence and found us at our new location this year. Emma's #1 item from Santa was an Easy Bake Oven and Hannah's #1 was a Jake and the Neverland Pirate Ship (because there's a girl pirate too, she says!). She is a trip.

Their other big desired item from Santa was Doc McStuffins - which happened to be the #1 toy of the Christmas season.

even Lilly had a pile!

Emma's side

Hannah's side

the things to enjoy together

We still had to wake the girls up this year - around 8:00. Of course it wasn't hard at all getting them out of bed. I know one day I will certainly appreciate these days instead of getting up in the wee hours of the morning. They were full of excitement as they walked in and looked around. They also got several surprises - a vet/grooming center, a camper and loghouse cabin to go with their dollhouses, DVD's, Peppa Pig accessories, leap pad games, new leap pad bags, Brave characters and more.

opening stockings

E and her Easy Bake Oven!

H and her Jake/Pirate Leap Pad Game

Emma was very surprised with her Tom and Jerry animals - she loves Tom and Jerry cartoons

there's Lilly enjoying the fun!

H and her pirate ship!

My mom stopped by for some Christmas breakfast and we quickly had to alter lunch plans to my uncle's house since my dad was still so sick. I had to pack for Raleigh - the girls wanted to take EVERYTHING with them but I limited them to one bag each since we would be accumulating more and more presents through the day. 

We had lunch at Buster and Annette's, quickly exchanged all presents and polyannas, talked for just a bit and then we hit the road to Raleigh.

Kelly and Whitney

Bo and his joke present

Bo also got Tarheel PopTarts

Hannah and her food from Aunt Connie

Emma and her play food from Aunt Connie

my lovely bacon scented chapstick from Dawn

Whitney loved her slippers

I had Dawn's name and gave her a small Origami Owl locket and Bo had Sarah's name so he got her one too - Origami Owl all around this Christmas

Hannah and Annette

Bo and the kiddos

one and only family picture on Christmas folks

Mammie and Hannah

Buster and the girls

Mammie with Emma, hannah and Andy

mom and the kids - dad was sick again all day

The girls some some new play food from aunt Connie, outfits from Buster and Annette and Madame Alexander dolls from Mammie. The cousins were really into playing jokes this year with our polyannas - Brandon had Bo's name and at first gave him a yard sale ugly as can be Carolina jacket and then his real present was some Polo lounge pants. Dawn gave me some disgusting bacon scented chapstick - the whole fam knows how much I cannot stand the smell of bacon and how on family vacations I hate being woken up to that horrid stench. Thanks Dawn - really. But, then she gave me a lovely Limited sweater so it was ok. Mammie gave me my favorite perfume and Bo some t-shirts.

We got to Raleigh around 4:15, opened more presents, ate some dinner and then chilled for the night.
Bo's parents gave the girls Disney princess boots from Stride Rite, Lala Loopsy characters, spring outfits from Gymboree, Olivia leap pad game for Hannah, Tinkerbell leap pad game for Emma, Miss Lina Ballerina books, a painting/dot set, and Brave princess dolls.

Mary, Britt Gibby and Owen gave Emma a Lala Loopsy game, Hannah a Princess Yachtzee game and some cute shirts.

I got new wall decorations for the kitchen, a ribbon board, sweater from Banana, and a Christmas decoration for next year. Bo got a new book, 2 Joseph Bank shirts, Mens Health subscription, Lowes Gift card, grill spatula/brush and grill frying pan.

money roll from Mamaw

It was a very nice Christmas! Of course the most important thing to me is knowing the true meaning of Christmas and spending time with the people we love. I gave my girls lots of extra squeezes and I just hope they know how much they are loved by so many people. We have the best families and are so thankful to be able to see everyone we love so much on such a very special day.