Merry Christmas!!!!

Merry Christmas!!!!

This year we decided to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas morning at our own house in Indiana(Tradition #1), so I wanted to start some traditions for the 6 of us. We will head to Iowa and MN on the 25th to visit with family...........Hopefully, the girls will be so worn out from the excitement of Christmas they will all take an 8 hour nap to Boone!!!!

Yesterday, we hung out and played----wish there was snow we could have played in!!!!

Then, we went to the 5:30 church service, so we were home about 6:45.

As soon as we got home, the girls needed to check in on Santa's progress on the iPad.

Notice Hannah doesn't even have her coat off yet!!!!!

Then, each girl got to open one gift-----jammies.(Tradition #2)

Next, they helped make dinner.

The perfect meal in your new jammies is "Brinner"----breakfast for dinner!!!!!(Tradition #3)

Whitney slept through dinner.

After dinner, while the dishes were being cleaned up they decided to have a dance party!!!!

The girls were very excited about opening gifts...

.....This year each girl got a game and a puzzle---(Tradition #4)

actually Hannah got new gloves for playing in the snow instead of a puzzle, but she didn't seem to mind!!!!

Everything got played with and no one was overwhelmed. I think Trouble may be a new family favorite!!!!

Whitney slept through gift opening too!!!!

We woke her up for a picture, and so she wouldn't be up for ever in the middle of the night!!!!

Whitney's First Christmas!!!!

After checking in on Santa's progress one more time-----we read The Night Before Christmas by the tree before heading up to bed.(Tradition #5)

Life is Good with traditions!!!!