Well, he came last night....but it's Christmas morning!! Yeah!! As you can see, the mantle has grown by one stocking this year. Mom was up ALL night the week before Christmas working on making sure Avery's stocking was done in time....and of course it was! These stockings, as you read from my posts a couple years ago, are a VERY VERY big deal! You do not get one until you are married or born into the family. Mom still makes these by hand for all new members. I am proud to say that mine is the oldest...and you can tell...but that is what I love about it. It is original, has character, and is the only red (well, kinda more pink now) one. While all the others have 1000x's more detail and bling, bling that mine....I still love mine the most.
Anyways, back to Christmas morning and jingling all the way....
As I was saying, this was Avery's first Christmas....and so there are an extra amount of pictures of her. The kiddos woke up and were so excited to see their stockings full of goodies. They were as excited for the candy & little things in the stockings as they were for their other gift from Santa. Andrew got a little airplane thing, Brianna a Barbie airplane, and Avery a jumping turtle thing that you bounce on. Avery really liked her bouncey thing...she just can't do it on her own yet. She also really liked opening her own gifts. When she couldn't get the paper open, she resorted to eating it. She didn't like the taste so much, but it didn't stop her from trying to get to her gifts.
Everyone got and gave amazing gifts!! This year we actually did lists of ideas for gifts so it gave everyone really good ideas of what to get each other. I think it worked out really well, and everyone benefited from it!
After gifts, we all took showers, had an amazing breakfast of quiche & mimosas, and played with our new toys :)
Yes, he wore his helmet for the rest of the morning as he opened all his other gifts
Had to give her the plug so she would stop eating her wrapping paper
Andrew got me some nailpolish for my toes...called "Piggy Polish"...get it....Piggy polish from Piggy! He was really, really excited about his gift...I loved it!!! :)
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