Christmas

It was so much fun preparing for Christmas this year. This is the first year that Callie was actually in to the whole Santa thing. When she would see something that she liked at the store I would say "maybe Santa will bring you one." Then after hearing that so much she would start to say it on her own. Everything that she wanted from the store she would hold it up and say "Mom, Santa get me this." It was pretty cute.

Nate and I did pretty good for our first year. Callie was asleep by 9:30pm and I was in bed by 11:00pm. I was actually finished with everything by 10:30, but had misplaced my camera so that took some time.

Santa brought Callie a bike and Jace a set of 6 soft top cars along with a few other small gifts for each.

Callie and Jace on Christmas morning.
Jace with one of his cars from Santa.

Callie on her bike.

Nate did his own little Christmas in the basement. We had this horse and carriage in our front yard and he brought it inside into the basement to pile presents on (all the ones he bought).

Nate got the kids a little camping chair. Jace looked so grown-up sitting in it I just had to take a picture.

Nate got Callie this sleeping bag so we can go camping when it gets warm.

Here is our disaster of a house after only opening about 1/4 of the gifts. Callie probably had about 30 presents to open. She loved every minute of it. It was a great Christmas.