Opening Presents

 Here are the last of the Christmas pictures.  This is Christmas Eve as we were prepping our cookies for Santa's arrival.  The first thing Anna looked for when she came down the stairs was not the presents but whether or not Santa had eaten his cookies.  Luckily, he did not forget.  ;-)
Below is our big Christmas Eve dinner spread.  It was quite delicious and is making me hungry all over again.

 Anna talked about dressing up like Mary for weeks and weeks.  She could hardly wait!  She even wore a dress on Christmas Eve because she wanted to make it special for when she was going to be Mary.  How darling!  She took it all very seriously and wouldn't even crack a smile for the camera. 

 Andrew was supposed to be Joseph but wouldn't have anything to do with a towel being placed on his head.  Daddy was our stand in, upon Anna's request.  Andrew got demoted to a sheep!

 Family pic!

 We do a secret sibling swap every year.  I love that tradition.  We get to open those gifts on Christmas Eve. 

 My hunks!

 And here starts Christmas morning.  It was such a great day.  I loved every second of this holiday!  It felt like heaven on earth, truly.

 What a crazy little face! 

 We found this princess costume at a consignment sale and Anna loves it!  We can hardly get it off of her.  We actually got all of the kids gifts at a consignment sale.  It saved us a ton of money.

 We were tired of Andrew playing with Anna's dolls so we got him a dinosaur in hopes he would replace it.  So far so good!

 My mom and dad bought the kids tents for Christmas.  They are so cute and have been getting a lot of use at our house.  It was a hit!  Anna's was a princess tent, of course, and Andrew got a Thomas the Train tent.

 Aunt Kellie got Anna an Ariel doll.  Perfect!

 My little cutie patootie!

 Those three kids are my life!  I love them more than anything. 

 My dad sent my mom on a scavenger hunt to find her Christmas present.  It was so cute.  She loved it and was very surprised.  

 So handsome!

 Here we are at Christmas breakfast! 

 We got Anna this huge princess puzzle and she was very impressive with it.  She did it over and over again. 

We hope everyone had a good holiday. 

Christmas Crafts

 While we were in GA, we did lots of Christmas crafts with the kids.  They loved it.  That is definitely a fun part of my job as mom.  I loved doing it with them and seeing them get so excited.  These pictures are when we made reindeer hats out of our hand prints.  They turned out so cute!

 One night, Josh was reading stories to the kids before bed as I finished something up downstairs.  When I came up to our room, I found Anna like this.  I burst out laughing.  Then she giggled for ten minutes and thought she was the funniest thing in the world.  Nobody loves Granny's house like this girl.  Every minute was magical to her. 

 My mom also celebrated a birthday while we were there, so of course, we threw her a party.

 My mom is truly the best Granny there is.  She is so good with those kids.  I think she is so good at it because she loves them so much.  Their crazy, screaming, tantruming times don't even bother her because she really, really loves them.  I grew to love my mom even more because she was so good to my kids.  It was wonderful to be able to celebrate her while we were there.

 We had lots of play-doh time while in GA.  Anna makes the cutest little people.  I just had to capture it. 

This person had fingers and a smiley face.  Come on!  Is that not the cutest person you've ever seen?

 This is Andrew's "mountain".  It's perfect!