Christmas... A Wonderful Time of Year

Christmas was a blast at our house this year. Ryleigh was really into the whole Santa thing and couldn't wait for him to come. Luckily for us, she still doesn't understand to wake up at the crack of dawn to open presents. We had to wake her up at 8:00. We asked her if she wanted to go see if Santa had come back after she went to sleep and left her presents, when she woke up enough to realize what we were saying, she jumped right up. We had it all ready, lights on the tree on, cookies and milk eaten with crumbs left on the plate and some in the milk, leftover Reindeer food by the sliding glass door, stockings down and stuffed and presents filled under the tree. When she came downstairs she got excited and was so happy. The first thing she noticed was that her stocking was missing (not hanging up anymore) and asked where it was. I thought it was funny that she noticed that. She right away started opening up presents. Madison didn't know what was going on, she was just excited there were boxes, paper and toys everywhere. Ryleigh helped her open her presents. Ryleigh wanted to play with almost everything as she opened it, so it took awhile, but we enjoyed every second of it. They both love all their new toys and Ryleigh even loves all of her new clothes! The dollhouse is a big hit with both of them! Tom and I had opened our presents the day before to give Christmas morning to the girls, that is our gift anyway, to see the pure joy as they open up their presents. We had a turkey dinner early in the afternoon and Mimi joined us for that. She came over to see all the new toys and play with the girls. They always enjoy that. We ended the day with a wonderful nap and playing for the rest of the evening. We had a terrific Christmas!! Ryleigh wants to do it again!!