Christmas 2010

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. Brinley absolutely loved every part of Christmas! Baking cookies, decorating the gingerbread house, helping wrap presents, changing our advent calendar daily, etc. Clayton was really aware of what was going on and really enjoyed participating in all the merriment too! Of course, both my kids are big eaters, so all the indulging was like heaven to them! I have been having to break Clayton of begging for cookies after every meal :-)

On the 23rd, we baked our sugar cookies for Santa and decorated a gingerbread house when Jason got home. I had to take a picture quickly because they were ready to devour it! After all the icing and candy, they ran circles in our living room for an hour! On Christmas Eve, we headed over my parent's house for Christmas with my family.

Since Disney was our Christmas this year, it was just supposed to be for dinner, but of course my mom had to buy presents for the kids! It was on a much lower scale than her normal "mamaw claus" and I must admit it was nice not having to stuff it all in my car afterwards!

On Christmas morning, the kids actually slept in until 8:15!! Once they were up, they ran into to the living room to see what Santa had brought them. They both loved their "big" Santa gift, which was a power wheel. Clayton sat inside it for the first 10 minutes wanting to ride it, we had to coax him out with presents to open! After opening presents and breakfast, we took it outside in the cold and let them ride! Clayton was not too happy to be the passenger at first and he had the pout face on until Brinley finally let him drive! Since Christmas the weather has been rainy and cold, but we can't wait to put more use out of it!

Clayton's response to opening all his presents was "oooooohhhhhh"

Brinley was serious and wouldn't look up to smile for us!

After the afternoon of playing with all their new goodies, we got dressed in our Christmas attire and headed over to the Smith's for Christmas dinner. There was lots of good food and lots of presents!
We had a great Christmas and have enjoyed not much on our calendar since then! Today, I tackled the playroom and the kids room and spent 3 hours "cleaning" and making room for the new toys. It no longer looks like a Toys R Us threw up in my house!