It was a Merry Christmas

  I am finally getting around to posting some pictures from Christmas.  It has been a little hectic around our place :-)

Emma was so excited that Santa was coming to her house.  She helped me bake cookies for him and was on her best behavior all evening.  We tried to put her to bed a couple of times and finally gave up.  She laid down on the couch to "wait" for Santa and within a couple of minutes, was sound asleep.

Here is the tree after Santa came.  He was very thoughtful too and used Princess paper on most of her gifts.  She LOVES her princess'.

Santa also was very hungry and ate almost all the cookies and drank most of the milk.  When Emma saw that the cookies and the milk were almost gone, her eyes got big and round!

 

 

 

It was still dark outside when Emma realized that Santa had been there.  She had been out in the living room for a while playing with her new dollhouse before she came and woke us up.

Emmaline had asked Santa for a Sleeping Beauty dress and the DVD.  She was very happy to get both, along with a few other things.

 

 

As soon as we were done opening Santa's gifts, she had to put her new dress on.  And watch her movie.  We went back to bed for a couple of hours since we had been up 1/2 the night.

 

Once we got up and got ready and started cooking for Christmas dinner we sat down to open our gifts.

 

This is one of the better pictures of Emma taken Christmas Day.  She just would not cooperate with the picture taking process at all :-)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is one of my favorite pictures.  We took it after we had eaten at Grandma & Grandpa's.  We were trying to get a good picture of Emma, Ethan & Sydney (that didn't really happen), but I did manage to snap this one.  Emma loves her cousin Sydney. 

Emmaline really got into actually opening her gifts this year and checking out what each one was.  But once she had looked and figured each one out, she was ready for the next one.

To cap the season off, my parents came the day after Christmas and just left today.  We opened presents with them the first night they were here.  Here is Emma cuddling with Mimi and Papa to get them ready to watch her rip into some more paper!

We had a busy weekend while they were here, so I do have more pictures, but since this post has gotten rather long, I will save those for another day.